Re: Any ideas on how to match and balance parenthesis

[Ronald Cross <roncross@cox.net>]

Thanks for the response.  I am not a Windows user so I will not be  
able to incorporate any of these editors.  I have looked around on my  
machine (An apple computer) for applications that can do parenthesis  
matchings and Xcode appears to do the job.
Thanks for the other scripting advice in terms of making dynamic  
plots and graphs.  Except for PREPEND, all the other commands are  
available for JMP 4.
What a pity that JMP doesn't incorporate this simple feature into  
their script editor?
thx
RLC
On Jan 22, 2006, at 8:15 AM, chem engineer wrote:

> 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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