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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: FAQ and string functions
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Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.theworld.com> wrote:
: 
: By the way, a partial answer to the original poster's question is to
: look at the various GNAT packages, such as SNOBOL.  I have no idea
: whether they do what you want, but they do some kinds of string
: manipulation.  They may be compiler dependent, or they may be useful
: with other compilers.

I haven't seen a builtin split operation in any SNOBOL4, but
I'm quite certain that a lot of split operations have been done
or are done in SNOBOL4 programs, where that is necessary. :)

Same in SETL2 or ICON.

Georg