On Nov 14, 2012, at 4:51 AM, Nigel Garvey <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Mark Lively wrote on Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:32:35 +0000: > >> set sometext to read lun until "def" > > Up to Snow Leopard, at least, 'read' parameters like 'until' and 'using > delimiter' only use the first character of the string passed to them, > case-sensitively. The same split would be obtained with any 'until' > value beginning with a lower-case "d". > > NG Carp! I thought some of the strings I got back seemed Fishy. Unfortunately writing a scanner is not exactly trivial. -Mark Why can't it do what it says one the box.