On 27 Apr 00 22:16:29 MDT Scott Durno <scottdurno at usa.net> wrote:
>When I -> Do it   the transcript displays several rows of 5 digit numbers and
>I do not know what they are. This works fine in st express. What does Squeak
>do different?
>
>Thanks in advance 

James,

The difference is that in Squeak #nextWord means a two-byte binary number rather that a string of characters delimited by separator characters. The method below would do what you want.

Cheers,
Bob

===== code follows =====
'From Squeak2.8alpha of 13 January 2000 [latest update: #2042] on 28 April 2000 at 11:29:19 am'!

!PositionableStream methodsFor: 'accessing' stamp: 'RAA 4/28/2000 11:28'!
upToNextSeparator

	| startPos endMatch result |
	startPos _ self position.
	[self atEnd] whileFalse: [
		self next isSeparator ifTrue: [
			endMatch _ self position.
			self position: startPos.
			result _ self next: endMatch - startPos - 1.
			self position: endMatch.
			self skipSeparators.
			^ result
		].
	].
	self position: startPos.
	^ self upToEnd! !