on Thu, 27 Sep 2001 12:55:53, Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> The data is very conveniently presented in imagedata:  just get the
> chartonum of every four characters, discared the first one (always zero) and
> you've got an RGB triplet.
> 
> Now here's my question:  What's the most efficient way to parse a chunk of
> data into every four characters and discard the first one?   So many ways to
> slice that one, and I haven't had time lately to run routines through
> MetaBench....
> 

Hmmm. What about...

repeat with i = 1 to length(tstr) div 4
  put char 4*i-2 to 4*i of tstr into item i of tparsed
end repeat  

Raymond
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> Richard Gaskin 
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> Multimedia Design and Development for Mac, Windows, UNIX, and the Web
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