WordSeparators

Usage

• WordSeparators is an option for Read, Find and related functions which specifies the list of strings to be taken as delimiters for words.

Notes

• The default setting is WordSeparators -> {" ", "\t"}.

• Strings used as word separators may contain several characters.

• With the option setting NullWords -> False, any number of word separators may appear between any two successive words.

• WordSeparators -> {{

, ... }, {

, ... }} specifies different left and right separators for words. Words must have a left separator at the beginning, and a right separator at the end, and cannot contain any separators.

• Strings given as record separators are automatically taken as word separators.

• See Section 2.12.8.

• See also: RecordSeparators, TokenWords.

• New in Version 2.