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st: RE: parse
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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"'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
Subject
st: RE: parse
Date
Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:04:32 +0100
If that is all that is relevant to -parse-, then those two lines are equivalent to
syntax varlist(min(2))
In other cases, several statements typed before -parse- in a program might affect how it worked.
The job of -parse- was to check and interpret what was typed on the command line in view of the syntax declared.
Nick
[email protected]
Wincent
I have come across a program with these lines
local varlist "req min(2)"
parse "`*'"
Parse is an obsolete command, and I cannot find much reference on it.
Can anyone elaborate a bit on what it does?
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