In my opinion? it SHOULD say 3. 2 lines with stuff, and 1 blank. Of course it says 2, but this is the same reason people "delete the last char of.." when doing things. If you fill a field with "this" & cr & "that" & cr, and then click at the bottom of the field, your cursor goes to the blank line underneath the 2 lines with text. The line exists, it should be counted. Looking at it the other way, if you put fred into line 1 of field 1, put mike into line 2 of field 1, the cr is added between the 2 automatically, but there is no extra trailing line. There are 2 lines.
Having text for line 1 & cr empty for line 2 & cr text for line 3, at that point, line 2 looks and acts exactly like line 2 would look and behave if there were no line 3. You can click in it, type in it, it acts like a line. And is counted as a line like it should be. If however it is a trailing empty line it is not counted. It's the same exact thing. A cr followed by empty. Simply adding another line after it shouldn't make it magically appear as a line. either it is or it isn't, at least so it seems to me. Having said all this, there is most likely a reason it is the way it is that I don't have enough knowledge to understand. As with removing trailing carriage returns, if it's a null item it isn't difficult to work around and i'm not sure I can come up with a valid reason for actually having an empty item, but that doesn't mean there isn't a use for it. /shrug As a last visual example, I have several spice bottles in my kitchen, some of which are empty. If I re-arrange them so that an empty one is on the end of the row it doesn't cease to exist, and it doesn't pop back in to being because i put it between 2 spice bottles that DO have contents. On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 9:20 AM, J. Landman Gay <[email protected]>wrote: > On 11/3/10 9:00 AM, Mike Bonner wrote: > >> Actually, I think that's exactly the problem. "a,b,,," has 4 items. The >> trailing , is ignored. "a,b,,,e" has 5 items. putting a space, or some >> type of invisible char after the trailing , makes it 5 items. It drives >> me >> nuts, if the comma is there it should designate a null item whether its in >> the middle or at the end. >> > > Okay, then how many lines should be in: > > a<cr> > b<cr> > > ? > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | [email protected] > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.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 > _______________________________________________ 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
