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Re: Pass a name string to a CREATE DOES> via user input

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On 14/02/2014 08:18, Elizabeth D. Rather wrote:
> On 2/13/14 10:02 PM, Gerry Jackson wrote:
>> On 14/02/2014 02:20, hank.lenzi@gmail.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> Gerry
>>>
>>>   What can I say? This is *exactly* what I needed! Thank you!
>>>
>>>   The part I'm not sure about is how do I get leading whitespace out
>>> of it. It's not -TRAILING. WORD does it, but PARSE doesn't, right?
>>
>> Yes and no. WORD loses leading delimiters, PARSE doesn't. If the
>> delimiting character is a space WORD will get rid of leading spaces
>> otherwise not - your delimiter is '.' so you need to do it yourself.
>
> Not correct.

In that case please explain why Swiftforth does this.

: emit" [char] " emit ;
: x [char] . word count cr emit" type emit" ;
x      .\ abc.xyz
"     " ok

When I wrote "so you need to do it yourself" I meant of course that you 
needed to write code that skipped leading white space from the string 
returned by WORD. The context was a reply to a question about getting 
rid of leading whitespace

WORD skips leading delimiters regardless of what the
> delimiter is. It will skip leading '.' or any other specified delimiter.

Yes but only one delimiter can be specified for a particular execution 
of WORD. If the delimiter is '.' it will not skip leading spaces - as 
Swiftforth demonstrates.

-- 
Gerry

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Pass a name string to a CREATE DOES> via user input hank.lenzi@gmail.com - 2014-02-12 17:50 -0800
  Re: Pass a name string to a CREATE DOES> via user input "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2014-02-12 16:01 -1000
    Re: Pass a name string to a CREATE DOES> via user input Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2014-02-12 18:14 -0800
      Re: Pass a name string to a CREATE DOES> via user input "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2014-02-12 16:36 -1000
    Re: Pass a name string to a CREATE DOES> via user input Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-02-13 00:42 -0800
      Re: Pass a name string to a CREATE DOES> via user input Elizabeth D Rather <erather@forth.com> - 2014-02-12 22:55 -1000
  Re: Pass a name string to a CREATE DOES> via user input Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2014-02-13 23:56 +0000
    Re: Pass a name string to a CREATE DOES> via user input hank.lenzi@gmail.com - 2014-02-13 18:20 -0800
      Re: Pass a name string to a CREATE DOES> via user input Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2014-02-14 08:02 +0000
        Re: Pass a name string to a CREATE DOES> via user input "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2014-02-13 22:18 -1000
          Re: Pass a name string to a CREATE DOES> via user input Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2014-02-14 10:37 +0000
            Re: Pass a name string to a CREATE DOES> via user input "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2014-02-14 09:53 -1000
              Re: Pass a name string to a CREATE DOES> via user input Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2014-02-14 22:16 +0000
          Re: Pass a name string to a CREATE DOES> via user input albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-02-14 12:17 +0000
        Re: Pass a name string to a CREATE DOES> via user input hank.lenzi@gmail.com - 2014-02-15 11:16 -0800
          Re: Pass a name string to a CREATE DOES> via user input Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2014-02-15 22:54 +0000
            Re: Pass a name string to a CREATE DOES> via user input Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2014-02-16 00:24 +0100
              Re: Pass a name string to a CREATE DOES> via user input Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2014-02-16 08:01 +0000
          Re: Pass a name string to a CREATE DOES> via user input "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2014-02-15 16:27 -1000
            Re: Pass a name string to a CREATE DOES> via user input Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2014-02-16 08:21 +0000
          Re: Pass a name string to a CREATE DOES> via user input stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2014-02-16 10:58 +0000
    Re: Pass a name string to a CREATE DOES> via user input "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2014-02-13 18:28 -1000

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