RosettaCodeData/Task/Tokenize-a-string/REXX/tokenize-a-string-1.rexx
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/*REXX program separates a string of comma-delimited words, and echoes them --> terminal*/
original = 'Hello,How,Are,You,Today' /*some words separated by commas (,). */
Say 'The input string:' original /*display original string --> terminal.*/
new=original /*make a copy of the string. */
Do n=1 Until new=='' /*keep processing until NEW is empty.*/
Parse Var new word.n ',' new /*parse words delineated by a comma (,)*/
End /*n*/ /* [?] the new array is named word. */
Say /* NEW is destructively parsed. */
Say center('Words in the string',40,'-') /*display a nice header for the list. */
Do j=1 To n /*display all the words (one per line),*/
Say word.j||left(.,j\==n) /*maybe append a period (.) to a word. */
End /*j*/ /*Don't append a period after the last */
Say center('End-of-list',40,'-') /*display a (EOL) trailer for the list.*/