Re: more splitting

On 2026-04-15 10:32, Mark J. Reed wrote:
>
> The thing stored in memory is not delimited. It has no parentheses 
> around it, no quotes, no spaces between its elements. There isn't any 
> "between its elements" because the elements are stored separately; it 
> is treated as if it were a collection of individual variables each 
> with their own value.
Yeah ... this has been explained ... they are delimited simply by virtue 
of being separate C strings.  Pull them out in order, pipe them ... the 
separation no longer exists, it's an artifact of the C storage.  I get 
it.  My socks are the the top drawer, my undies in the 2nd -- but when 
they're in the wash, the machine has no way of knowing where they came 
from or where they're going.  My socks don't use a bowtie to delimit 
themselves from my undies, they're simply stored in different places.  
It might have been designed differently but that's the way it is.

OK.  A few more questions, and I think I'll finally understand splitting.