-string()- maps numbers to strings. Thus string(42) yields "42".
-word(,)- extracts words from strings. Thus the argument and the result
are both of string type.
Nick
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Johannes Geyer
I do not know why my code did not work but I guess I did something the
function string() is not designed for. Instead I tried something
different
with word() and that works perfectly:
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