Using strings in Icon

Mastery of text processing in Icon starts with these skills:

• Refer to the section on reading an input line to input lines from the standard input file as strings.
• To refer to parts of a string, you should know `How Icon positions are numbered'.
• To extract parts of a string, you must know how to select a substring.
• Read the page on `Using csets to describe sets of characters in Icon'.
• In order to see whether a string matches a given pattern, use the various string analysis functions.

John Shipman, john@nmt.edu Last updated: 1996/01/06 21:12:57 UT URL: http://www.nmt.edu/tcc/help/lang/icon/stringops.html