COLLATE(2)            Icon Program Library             COLLATE(2)



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     collate - collate and decollate strings

DDDDEEEESSSSCCCCRRRRIIIIPPPPTTTTIIIIOOOONNNN
     These procedures collate (interleave) respective characters
     of two strings and decollate by selecting every other char-
     acter of a string.

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     ccccoooollllllllaaaatttteeee((((ssss1111,,,,ssss2222)))) produce a string consisting of interleaved
                    characters of ssss1111 and ssss2222.  For example,
                    ccccoooollllllllaaaatttteeee((((""""aaaabbbbcccc"""",,,,""""ddddeeeeffff"""")))) produces """"aaaaddddbbbbeeeeccccffff"""".

     ddddeeeeccccoooollllllllaaaatttteeee((((ssss,,,,iiii)))) produce a string consisting of every other
                    character of ssss. If iiii is odd, the odd-numbered
                    characters are selected, while if iiii is even,
                    the even-numbered characters are selected.

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     Run-time error 208 occurs if the arguments to ccccoooollllllllaaaatttteeee are
     not of the same size.

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     Ralph E. Griswold































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