I've just Flagged that reply. I should really print it off and mount it on the wall - that's a very important list. I think I've fallen victim of every single one of those and it's always been a complete hassle to track down because it only ever breaks things once in a blue moon when it's also pancake Tuesday. To ensure advance hair loss, spend 99% of your time with the itemDel set to tab so you can't even see if there's a delimiter there or not!
And of course those problems don't just apply to lists, you can repeat those last 3 problems with lines (which I guess are just vertical lists). In the msg box: put "AAA" & cr & "BBB" into tStore put empty into line 3 of tStore put the number of lines of tStore into msg put " expecting 3 with the 3rd line empty" after msg put "AAA" & cr & "BBB" into tStore put empty into line 2 of tStore put cr & the number of lines of tStore after msg put " expecting 2 with the 2nd line empty" after msg put "AAA" & cr & cr & "BBB" into tStore put cr & the number of lines of tStore after msg put " expecting 3" after msg delete line 3 of tStore put cr & the number of lines of tStore after msg put " expecting 2 because I had 3 lines and deleted the last one" after msg put "AAA" & cr & cr & cr & "BBB" into tStore put cr & the number of lines of tStore after msg put " expecting 4" after msg sort lines of tStore descending put cr & the number of lines of tStore after msg put " expecting 4 because I just sorted 4 lines" after msg _______________________________________________ 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
