On 16/09/2013 00:44, Richard Gaskin wrote:
It may also be helpful to remember that lineDel and itemDel are purely arbitrary; that is, they needn't be limited to use only on what we might think of as lines and items.

The only general rule governing them is that the engine will insist that "lines" be a larger chunk type than "items" (you can get item 2 of line 1, but you can't get line 2 of item 1) - but beyond that you're free to use whatever delimiters you like.
Well, it only insists on that in a very limited way.

A single item can contain multiple lines.

You cannot say
   put line 1 of item 2 of temp
But you can say
   put line 1 of (item 2 of temp)
and it will happily do so.

put "abc,def" & CR into temp
put "ghi,klm" & CR after temp
put line 1 of  (item 2 of temp)

does indeed output "def"

-- Alex.

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