Thanks everyone for the replies. I have not had a chance to try it yet, but it was one of the methods that I had come across but was not sure if it was the "best" one to use.<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
2009/8/29 K. K. Subramaniam <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:subbukk@gmail.com">subbukk@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Saturday 29 Aug 2009 7:18:02 pm r00t uk wrote:<br>
> I am reading a tab delimited file into a string. I want to iterate through<br>
> this string and split by tab, or any other defined value (, . | # tab, cr,<br>
> etc.), delimiter into substrings which are assigned to a Collection (Array,<br>
> Dictionary, Bag, etc.), or instant variables.<br>
</div>See String>linesDo: and its senders. For parsing a line into tokens, you can<br>
use findTokens:<br>
<div class="im"><br>
>Again, I am surprised by the lack of examples demonstrating to newbies how<br>
>to perform basic operations such as this. I know it is not the smalltalk<br>
>way of learning, but it does raise the bar for making progress.<br>
</div>Searching source code is quite easy in Squeak. In this case, I used<br>
(Alt+Shift+W) to bring up the message search tool and searched for "lines".<br>
Then I used senders/implementers to explore methods.<br>
<br>
HTH .. Subbu<br>
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