Re: Bug, or Misunderstanding?

[Fumio Nonaka]

I believe this is a bug (Director 8.0/MacOS 8.6 & Windows98SE). put xAnalyzeItems(",,I,am,a,Japanese", ",") -- [#count: 6, #items: ["", "", "I", "am", "a", "Japanese"]] put xAnalyzeItems("..I.am.a.Japanese", ".") -- [#count: 6, #items: ["", "", "I", "am", "a", "Japanese"]] put xAnalyzeItems(" I am a Japanese", space) -- [#count: 4, #items: ["", "", "I", "am", "a", "Japanese"]] -- [Movie script for testing] on xAnalyzeItems sText, sDelimiter the itemDelimiter = sDelimiter nCount = sText.item.count lResult = [#count: nCount] lItems = [] repeat while true lItems.append(sText.item[1]) delete sText.item[1] if sText = empty then exit repeat end repeat lResult[#items] = lItems return lResult end _____ "Watson, Christopher" wrote: > temp = " bubba" > the itemDelimiter = SPACE > put temp.item.count > -- 1 ... > put temp.item[1] > -- "" > put temp.item[2] > -- "" > put temp.item[3] > -- "" > put temp.item[4] > -- "bubba" Good luck, Fumio Nonaka Attain Corporation Phone: +81-3-3255-4941 Fax: +81-3-3255-5998 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.attainj.co.jp [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]