> I agree it would be great to be able to say
> set the payAttentionToTrailingDelimiters to true
>
> But in the meantime you can use the fact that doubling a trailing
> delimiter will be ignored.
> repeat for each line L in tData
> if the last item of (L & the itemDel) is empty then
> -- deal with an empty one
> else
> -- use "the last item of L" which is not empty
> end if
Thanks, Alex... that's something I do when I need to, but it seems like more
of a workaround to me, which is why I'd rather have some kind of global
setting I could turn on when I needed it.
In some ways it's like like "the wholematches"... I don't believe we had
that in HyperCard, so if you were trying to see if a "whole" something
matched, you had to do slap the delimiters in front of and after everything,
like:
-- imagine field 1 has a CR-delimited list of different kinds of fruit
if offset((cr & pears & cr),(cr & tFruit & cr)) <> 0 then...
It's so much easier to say:
set the wholeMatches to true
if lineOffset("pear",tFruit) <> 0 then...
Maybe we should call it the "wholeChunks" ?
set the wholeChunks to true
put item -1 of "Ken,Ray,"
==> returns ""
??
:-)
Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
Email: [email protected]
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
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