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- NAME
- GetWord
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- SYNOPSIS
- GetWord - get one in a list of words - Requires v37
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- INPUTS
- NUMBER/N/A,WORDS/M
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- FUNCTION
- get a number and a couple of strings and
- find the n-th string starting with 1.
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- Negative numbers cause counting with the
- last word.
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- The resulting string is sent to STDOUT.
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- Numbers, that exceed the number of words,
- result in a returncode "10" (so does number=0)
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- RESULT
- word [number-1]
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- NOTES
- CLI - only
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- should compile with SAS-C
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- BUGS
- there are problems, if GetWord is invoked with
- wrong word number in Scripts: for unknown reason
- the secondary result is cleared early.
- (see .KnownBugs)
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- The documentation wrongly stated a returncode 9
- on wrong numbers.
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- EXAMPLES
- >GetWord 1 ali baba
- "ali"
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- >GetWord -1 ali baba
- "baba"
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- >GetWord 3 ali baba
- "GetWord: bad number"
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- AUTHOR
- Bernd Noll, Brunnenstrasse 55, D-67661 Kaiserslautern
- noll@student.uni-kl.de
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