D 8.5, PC:
put "a".symbol
-- #a
----- Original Message -----
From: "Florian Bogeschdorfer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 9:34 AM
Subject: Re: <lingo-l> Bad Word List WEIRD
> Hi John,
>
> this sounds very interesting. I'll give it a try.
>
> Though I found out something weird folks, take a look at this (from the
> message window, D8 Mac):
>
> put "a".symbol
> -- #A
> put "b".symbol
> -- #b
> put "aAbB".symbol
> -- #aAbB
>
> Why does it change the "a" to uppercase and the rest not?
>
> Best regards, Florian
>
>
> john wrote:
> >
> > Hi Florian,
> >
> > Im not sure if this comes in late by now.
> > Some time before, I have already asked this
> > on this list. I got a reply from Irv Kalb.
> > He suggested that I used symbols with
> > the items on the list.
> > This makes getPos not case-sensitive.
> >
> > a=[]
> > put a
> > -- []
> > add(a, symbol("one"))
> > put a
> > -- [#one]
> > add(a, symbol("two"))
> > -- [#one, #two]
> > add(a, symbol("three"))
> >
> > put a
> > -- [#one, #two, #three]
> > put getPos(a,symbol("one"))
> > -- 1
> > put getPos(a, symbol("OnE"))
> > -- 1
> > put getPos(a,symbol("TWO"))
> > -- 2
> > put getPos(a, symbol("ThREe"))
> > -- 3
> >
> > hth,
> > John Erazo
> >
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