David - unless you have huge numbers of lines it's probably easiest to just use the filter command.
filter tHold without "F*" The reason your repeat method isn't working is that tCount is only valid until the first deletion takes place So either use... repeat with j = tCount down to 1 if char 1 of line j of tHold is "F" then delete line j of tHold end repeat Or use the repeat for each form and build a new list as you go... put empty into tList repeat for each line tID in tHold if char 1 of tID is "F" then put tID cr after tList end repeat delete last char of tList -- removes the trailing CR HTH, Terry... On 11/05/10 12:34 PM, "David C." <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey folks, > I've run into something weird again (at least it seems weird to me) > and need some help. I have a variable named tHold that contains the > following (targeted) lines of text among many others: > > FB460V-CS05 > FD620DCS26 > FD751VAS00 > FE290DDS00 > FE290DES17 > FE400DES03 > FH381VAS29R > FH430VBT25M > > What I'm trying to do is to delete any line that begins with "F" and > the working code looks something like this: > > put the number of lines in tHold into tCount > > repeat with j = 1 to tCount > if character 1 of line j of tHold = "F" then delete line j of tHold > end repeat > > For some reason that I cannot detect, it removes only 4 of the eight > potential lines that are targeted although they all clearly begin with > an "F". I've checked and double-checked my sample data to make sure > there are not any spaces preceding the "F" character for each. > > Ideas? Better method? > > Best regards, > David C. > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
