OpenEuphoria

sequence and strings (newbie help wanted)

• Posted by jc at cknet.net Mar 14, 2001
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Hello,
Just begining with Euphoria, this is my first script. Trying to get the
command_line() and parse through it. Thought I would start by throwing the
contents of command_line() on the screen:

include get.e
object cmd
cmd = command_line()
puts(1, cmd)

vwait = wait_key()
-- putting the wait_key() in just so my screen remain up

I get an error message saying that I have a sequence in a character string.
In my ex.err I find:

cmd = {{67'C',58':',92'\',69'E',85'U',80'P',72'H',79'O',82'R',73'I',
116't',46'.',101'e',120'x',119'w'}}

Is this how Euphoria internally stores a string/sequence. Obviously I don't
understand something fundamental here with strings and sequences.

Also, looking for a word() function, but not finding one in Euphoria. Is
there a built in function that will parse through command_line() returning
the Nth word ?

TIA
Jim Chapman