It seems whitespace may be part of the problem,or the whole problem. I've used put to write the 17th element, ",", g_reg, and another comma, and the output was Texas,Texas, with now space between the last s and the last comma. But if I test the length of g_reg, it came up as 6, so I assumed there was unseen whitespace. I deleted the last character of g_reg and things worked from there. So one problem appears to be that "put" wasn't putting that whitespace, which was misleading me.
Sarah Reichelt-2 wrote: > >> I have a very irritating problem occurring. In one part of my program a >> global variable, g_region, is set to the name of a US state or Canadian >> province. Later in the program there is a loop that compares the 17th >> element of the line to g_region. If g_region and element 17 of the line >> are >> the same, the program does something. Using the variable watcher, I can >> see >> that g_region is set to a states name, and I can see that the 17th >> element >> of the line is the same state as g_region. But the loop doesn't >> acknowledge >> that the two are equivalent. I have tried : >> >> "repeat for each line regLine in lData >> if item 17 of regLine = g_reg then //and I've tried "is" in place of >> the >> equals sign, too. >> put item 17 of regLine into regFiltered >> end if >> end repeat" > > I have had problems with this sort of thing if there are any extra > spaces in the data. > Try: > if item 17 of regLine contains g_reg then > .... > > Cheers, > Sarah > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Text-variable-problem-tp23690465p23693668.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
