Chunk order must be small to large

stephen barncard stephenREVOLUTION2 at barncard.com
Fri Mar 13 00:23:54 EDT 2009


And I never saw this problem because I intuitively use parentheses!
Stephen Barncard
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2009/3/12 Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com>

> Jim Bufalini wrote:
> ...
>
>> And this is logical as, a. You can set itemDelimiter and lineDelimiter but
>> not the word delimiter (smallest chunk, which word boundary has undergone
>> a
>> change recently in Rev 3.0), b. When parsing text, words are generally
>> smaller chunks than phrases, which are usually delimited with commas, c.
>> As
>> has been pointed out, you can override this parsing order using
>> parenthesis,
>> and lastly d. All that's needed here is *item 1 of "aaa,bbb"* ;-)
>>
>
> And there's also e. you get a lot of raw speed by letting the parser safely
> make logical assumptions about chunk order.
>



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