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.\"
.\" cook - file construction tool
.\" Copyright (C) 1994, 1997 Peter Miller;
.\" All rights reserved.
.\"
.\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
.\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
.\" (at your option) any later version.
.\"
.\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
.\" GNU General Public License for more details.
.\"
.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
.\" along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
.\" Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.
.\"
.\" MANIFEST: User Guide, Builtin Functions, Word
.\"
.H 2 "word"
The
.I word
function is used to extract a specific word from a list of words.
The function requires at least one argument.
The first argument is the number of the word to extract from the wordlist.
The wordlist is the second and subsequent arguments.
An empty list will be returned if you ask
for an element off the end of the list.
.H 3 "Example"
.TS
center,tab(;);
l l.
Expression;Result
_
[word 1 one two three];one
[word 2 one two three];two
[word 3 one two three];three
[word 5 one two three];
.TE
.P
The last element of a list of words
may be extracted as:
.eB
last = [word [count [list]] [list]];
.eE
.H 3 "See Also"
count, head
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