Re: displaying text from list

[Irv Kalb]

No, you don't want to change your original data, you just want to 
build a string with returns in it.

Here's my untested version:

on ListToString listIn
  stringOut = ""
  nItems = count(listIn)
  repeat with i = 1 to nItems
     put (listIn[i] & RETURN) after stringOut
  end repeat
  return stringOut
end
Call this routine, pass in your list, it will return a string, put 
the string into some field or text member to display it.

Irv

At 10:51 AM -0500 6/27/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thank you guys,
I'll try these and see what happens. Perhaps if I duplicate the list before
dumping it into the field I could then avoid hard returns in the actual
list, right?
Chris
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 Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 11:35:55 -0400
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 Subject: Re: <lingo-l> displaying text from list
 -- not tested :)
 repeat with i=1 to myList.count
 tItem = myList[i]
 tItem = tItem & RETURN
 myList[i] = tItem
 end repeat
 -- potential problem is you now have hard returns in your data
 -- hope this helps
 --mv




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 Hi,
 Is there any way to insert a RETURN or SPACE after each item in a linear
 list? I am working on a questionaire with checkboxes that stores the text
 in
 a global list and after the user is finished with the questionaire I want
 them to be able to read the answers. So I've dumped the list into a field
 but there are no spaces between each item and the text is hard to read.
 Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
 Chris Satory
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