Re: Any ideas on how to match and balance parenthesis

[chem engineer <chemical_engr@yahoo.com>]

Ron - best approach is to use a stand alone programming editior ... like

WinEdit or Crimson Editor. I use crimson, and have set it up to recognize

key words int he JMP scripting language. Matching parenths is easy since

this editor highlites them.

 

I have programmed 5000+ lines of JMP script in the last 2 years. And know your

frustration, and believe me ... you are just scratching the annoyance zone with

this initial complaint.

 

Spend time learning the EXPR, NAME EXPR, SUBSTITUTE, PARSE, EVAL

commands ... when making complex dynamics scripts these are important.

 

For dynamic displays spend time learning the DELETE, APPEND, PREPEND,

CHILD, SIB commands as these (JMP 5 and on) are key in making dynamic

displays.

 

While JMP JSL is not truly OOP a lot of the OOP design concepts do play out,

yet the limit of not being able to perform class construction and subsequent

instantiation is a true limitation.

 

Best of luck ... and if you have a specific problems ... post em at the mailing list,

This is the best place for answers.

 

Don

Ronald Cross <roncross@cox.net> wrote:

Hi all, I am using JMP 4.0.4 for mac running a G4 powerbook with
1GByte of RAM with a 1GHz power pc processor on OS X 10.4.3.
However, this version of jmp runs under OS 9 (classic).

I have been developing some scripts and the most frustrating thing
about JMP scripting is the matching and balancing of parenthesis. I
was wondering if the community has any ideas on how to easily matc h
and balance parenthesis. Trying to balance these manually is very
time consuming.

Is the script editor any more advance in JMP version 5 for Mac?

thx
RLC

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