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Re: st: RE: parse
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Wincent <[email protected]>
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Re: st: RE: parse
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Thu, 26 Apr 2012 08:12:23 +0800
Thanks very much, Nick.
It helps a lot.
Best regards
On 24 April 2012 19:04, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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]
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> 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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Wincent Ronggui HUANG
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PhD of City University of Hong Kong
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