On 8/11/13 4:30 PM, Kay C Lan wrote:
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 3:34 AM, J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com>wrote:
When you think of it that way, it all falls into place.
Not really. In the Message Box:
put "1,1,3,2,1,4" into tStore
put tStore into msg
put empty into item -1 of tStore
put cr & tStore after msg
put cr & item -1 of tStore after msg
put 7 into item -1 of tStore
put cr & tStore after msg
This is a rather big gotcha! You asked LC to create an empty item and then
put a number into your place holder. LC deleted an item instead, which then
mangled your data.
If LC acted consistently then I'd agree that just learning that a delimiter
followed by empty is not an item, but if that is the case then whenever you
ask LC to create an empty item then LC should ensure there is a delimiter
after it.
It's consistent. Empying the last item essentially deletes it. The
terminating comma is retained because it belongs to the item before it.
The last item beomes "1", and you replace that with 7.
The item delimiter is a terminating character, not a divider, and it
"belongs" to the text of the item before it.
Lines are easier to grok:
This is line 1 <cr> -- cr is part of line 1
This is line 2 <cr> -- cr is part of line 2
This is line 3 <cr> -- cr is part of line 3
If I put empty into the last line, that text and its terminator are removed:
This is line 1 <cr> -- cr is part of line 1
This is line 2 <cr> -- cr is part of line 2
Here are three items:
item 1,
item 2,
item 3,
They work the same way.
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Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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