Command PARSE

Function:

Allows a sentence to be broken into pieces. The pieces are stored in environment variables. PARSEA contains the text that was extracted, and PARSEB contains the remainder of the text.

PARSE [text]

text	Sequence of characters.

• The PARSE command automatically breaks on comma's, quotation marks, dots, exclamation marks, colons, backslashes and frontslashes.
• Example on using PARSE.
• Also see Batch Programs.