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On Fri, 27 Sep 2024, Bob Eager wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Sep 2024 11:32:05 +0100, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 26 Sep 2024 20:51:25 -0000 (UTC) Lawrence D'Oliveiro
>> <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 26 Sep 2024 16:18:01 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>>>
>>>> One of the favourite functions in my library pulls the next token
>>>> from a delimited string, but as opposed to strtok() it does it
>>>> non-destructively and can handle empty strings.
>>>
>>> Use a high-level language which has all this and more:
>>>
>>>     for item in "the,quick,brown,fox".split(",") :
>>>         print(item)
>>>     #end for
>>>
>>> Output:
>>>
>>>     the quick brown fox
>>>
>>> In Python, strings are objects, and that applies to string expressions
>>> (including string literals) as well.
>>
>> You need Rexx
>
> Hear, hear. Still use it.
>

Rexx? That is a name I haven't heard in a long time. Do you mean Ben 
Kenobi?

Last time I encountered him he was doing tuning and statistics collection 
for on a storage system.