WIMS technical documentation

This document is currently under indexed style. You may change it to integral or folding style. There is also a general help and a paper on WIMS.


Data structure

Arrays

There is no special syntax in wims language for arrays. However, it is possible to design array-like variable structures, with integer or even string subscripts. This can be done using nested variable substitutions. For example, ...

Fields in a string

WIMS variables are all string variables. There are three different ways to split a string into fields:
  • As a list of words, separated by white-space characters. Consecutive white-spaces are considered as one field separator.
  • As a list of lines, separated by new-line characters. Consecutive new-lines are considered as separating empty lines.
  • As a list of items, separated by commas ( , ). Consecutive commas are considered as separating empty items.

This section is not yet finished. Sorry.