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.