Offset from right function?
Is there an offset-from-the-right function? I thought I had seen the use of a minus symbol with offset somehow that gave you the offset from the right, i.e., the end of a chunk of text. Yes? No? Regards, David -- David Cramer, Process Innovation Evangelist 87-1313 Border Street PBSC Computer Training Centres (an IBM company) Winnipeg MB R3H 0X4 Corporate Office Research Development Canada This is the MetaCard mailing list. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm
Re: Offset from right function?
On 11/2/00 2:19 pm, David Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there an offset-from-the-right function? I thought I had seen the use of a minus symbol with offset somehow that gave you the offset from the right, i.e., the end of a chunk of text. Yes? No? Yes, you can use negative chunk expressions. For example: char -1 of "abc" is "c" char 4 to -2 of "abcdefghij" is "defghi" Regards, Kevin Regards, David -- David Cramer, Process Innovation Evangelist 87-1313 Border Street PBSC Computer Training Centres (an IBM company) Winnipeg MB R3H 0X4 Corporate Office Research Development Canada Kevin Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.xworlds.com/ Cross Worlds Computing, MetaCard Distributors, Custom Development. Tel: +44 (0)131 672 2909. Fax: +44 (0)1639 830 707. This is the MetaCard mailing list. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm
Re: Offset from right function?
Argghh!! Never mind even more. I do feel dmb for missing another message which provides a much more efficient approach for ensuring one has set the global "directory" variable to a particular open stack's location, by using item and itemDelimiter syntax instead of "offset". Here's what I ended up with, which I believe should be fairly bulletproof (I hope?) global vgPath on preOpenStack put the effective fileName of this stack into vgPath set the itemDel to "/" delete the last item of vgPath set the directory to vgPath end preOpenStack And to further explain, the point to all this is to allow someone to be able to open a stack using a link from a web page, and ensure that when the stack opens, all graphics, etc. will be correctly referenced by relative references in that stack's scripts. Regards, David At 5:39 PM -0800 2/11/00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aha! That's probably what I remembered seeing. I guess what I was hoping I had seen was a way of using the "offset" function with a from-right variation. Because it occurred to me that I could then do something like... put the short name of this stack into thisStack put the long name of this stack into thePath delete char (offsetBack(thisStack,thePath) to the length of thePath) of thePath ...and I would know that I was left with the correct path to a stack even if the its long name were something like: /PowerBook/MetaCard/MyStuff/MyStuff.mc Never mind 8-( Regards, David At 11:15 AM -0800 2/11/00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/2/00 2:19 pm, David Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there an offset-from-the-right function? I thought I had seen the use of a minus symbol with offset somehow that gave you the offset from the right, i.e., the end of a chunk of text. Yes? No? Yes, you can use negative chunk expressions. For example: char -1 of "abc" is "c" char 4 to -2 of "abcdefghij" is "defghi" Regards, Kevin -- David Cramer, Process Innovation Evangelist 87-1313 Border Street PBSC Computer Training Centres (an IBM company) Winnipeg MB R3H 0X4 Corporate Office Research Development Canada This is the MetaCard mailing list. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm
Re: Offset from right function?
From: David Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Offset from right function? Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 19:36:08 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Aha! That's probably what I remembered seeing. I guess what I was hoping I had seen was a way of using the "offset" function with a from-right variation. Because it occurred to me that I could then do something like... put the short name of this stack into thisStack put the long name of this stack into thePath delete char (offsetBack(thisStack,thePath) to the length of thePath) of thePath ...and I would know that I was left with the correct path to a stack even if the its long name were something like: /PowerBook/MetaCard/MyStuff/MyStuff.mc Never mind 8-( Regards, David To get the path of a stack, you can write set the itemDelimiter to "/" put item 1 to -2 of the long name of this stack into thePath Regards, Claude This is the MetaCard mailing list. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm
