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Date:	Sun, 21 Mar 1999 18:27:44 PST
From:	"Rollin White" <rollin@scoug.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	< "scoug-programming@scoug.com" > scoug-programming@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: Rollin's Rexx

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On Sun, 21 Mar 1999 14:57:24 PST, Peter Skye wrote:

>
> parse var str x':'y':'z
>
>What exactly was the line you used?

For the Hobbes directory listing, I just used:

PARSE VAR Str FileName Size Date Description

But for a couple of the special cases, like directories, I used:

PARSE VAR Str './'DirName

But you had the concept right. You can use string literals to aid in your parsing, but sometimes it
has undesired side effects

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