Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!HNYMPI52.BITNET!CELEX From: CELEX@HNYMPI52.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.lang.icon Subject: strip Message-ID: Date: 24 Feb 90 19:03:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: inet Organization: The Internet Lines: 31 We use for removing unwanted characters from a string the following method: (&unwanchar is the set of the unwanted characters) while string[upto(&unwanchar,string)+:1] :== "" Hope this helps, Marcel Bingley C C -- C E L E X -- C C C C University of Nijmegen C CCCCCC Wundtlaan 1 C CCCCCCCCCCCCC 6525 XD NIJMEGEN C C C CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC The Netherlands CCCCCCCCCC CC C CCCCCCCC CCCCCCCC Tel: (+31) (0)80 - 512117 CCCCCCCC - 515797 CCCCCCCC CCCCCCCC EARN/BITNET: celex@hnympi52 CCCCCCCC Internet: celexmail@celex.surfnet.nl CCCCCCCC SURFNET: celex::celexmail CCCCCCCC JANET: celex%hnympi52@earn-relay CCCCCCCCC PSI: 020418802007380::celexmail CCCCCCCCCCC