Jacque, thanks for that code sample. I was not aware that i can use EOF in a repeat loop as condition. I always thought that it only can be used in a read command like
read from file MyFile until EOF Thanks again to all who gave feedback. It helped me a lot. Regards, Matthias Matthias Rebbe +49 5741 310000 wirmachen.software <http://wirmachen.software/> > Am 17.09.2017 um 21:38 schrieb J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>>: > > On 9/17/17 8:18 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: >> concatenating a cr (or whatever line delimiter the file uses if opening >> as binary) before mStart and reading from file until that string will >> find all instances but the 1st line of the file (it the file starts with >> mstart) > > I think it should find the first line as well: > > on parseFile > put "/path/to/file" into tFile > put cr & "mstart" into tDelim > open file tFile for read > repeat until eof > read from file tFile until tDelim > -- process the text here > end repeat > end parseFile > > The only hitch is that the last word of the retrieved text will be "mstart" > preceded by a cr. But it wouldn't be hard to delete that and add it before > the next retrieval, since the delimiter is a constant. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > <mailto:jac...@hyperactivesw.com> > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > <http://www.hyperactivesw.com/> > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode