I really suggest that you not cc Ansley on questions.
First, she gets the messages on the list just like anyone else. This list is for Ferret users to answer questions *for each other*. It is not a support site where one expects "service" from site managers (and usually pays for this privilege). Ansley is a Ferret developer, busy improving Ferret for all of us. She very nicely answers a lot of questions, but please do not assume that she will drop what she's doing to answer your question, as implied by a specific cc to her. Ask the list!
I think you should be able to do this using the SUBSTRING command, probably in a REPEAT loop. It looks kind of ugly.
How about:
let junk={`substring(test,1,1)`,`substring(test,2,1)`,`substring(test,3,1)`,....}
But if you want to list any single element of a string, that is easily done with SUBSTRING:
list substring(test,4,1)
Maybe this would be best done in a "subroutine" (a script called from the command line or another script). The subroutine would consist of the following line:
list substing(test,$1,1)
Where $1 is an argument passed to the script. Or all 3 arguments to substring could be passed, in which case the script (called substring_script.jnl) would be:
list substring($1,$2,$3)
called like:
go substring_script test 4 1
Billy K
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On Aug 24, 2013, at 7:24 PM, Akshay Hegde wrote:
> Hi ! all
> I am searching whether any string function available in ferret, to divide string into pieces by character
>
> for example
>
> yes? let test = {"0123456789 "} ! Being test variable
> yes? list test
> VARIABLE : {"0123456789 "}
> X : 1
> "0123456789 "
> yes? list strlen(test) ! list the length of string
> VARIABLE : STRLEN(TEST)
> X : 1
> 11.00
>
> I want to split string by character so that if I list them, I should get single character in each index
> list /i=1:11 dummy
> 1 / 1:"0"
>
> 2 / 2:"1"
> 3 / 3:"2"
> 4 / 4:"4"
> 5 / 5:"5"
> 6 / 6:"6"
> 7 / 7:"7"
> 8 / 8:"8"
> 9 / 9:"9"
> 10 /10:"10"
>
> 11 /11:" "
>
>
> please let me know if any....
>
>
> Regards,
> Akshay Hegde
>
>
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