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.
2009/8/29 K. K. Subramaniam subbukk@gmail.com
On Saturday 29 Aug 2009 7:18:02 pm r00t uk wrote:
I am reading a tab delimited file into a string. I want to iterate
through
this string and split by tab, or any other defined value (, . | # tab,
cr,
etc.), delimiter into substrings which are assigned to a Collection
(Array,
Dictionary, Bag, etc.), or instant variables.
See String>linesDo: and its senders. For parsing a line into tokens, you can use findTokens:
Again, I am surprised by the lack of examples demonstrating to newbies how to perform basic operations such as this. I know it is not the smalltalk way of learning, but it does raise the bar for making progress.
Searching source code is quite easy in Squeak. In this case, I used (Alt+Shift+W) to bring up the message search tool and searched for "lines". Then I used senders/implementers to explore methods.
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