I thought that's the way it worked too but I tried what you said and got an empty string, so I'd say Alex's problem is definitely a bug.
I've also found that zero is a valid line number. If your put a string into line zero of a field, the string will go before the first line. Pete lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> Home of lcStackBrowser <http://www.lcsql.com/lcstackbrowser.html> and SQLiteAdmin <http://www.lcsql.com/sqliteadmin.html> On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 8:56 PM, J. Landman Gay <[email protected]>wrote: > On 1/26/14, 7:39 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: > > i.e. if the field contains only 1 line, then setting liststyle of line 2 >> to -1 also sets the value for line 1. >> > > I'm not sure this is a bug as much as it's the way line numbering works. > If there is only a single line in a field, getting line 2 to -1 of it > returns the text of line 1, because that's the last line. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | [email protected] > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
