You're right regarding the 'no turning back' issue. Some of my employees were trying to take me off into Java-land, others insisted I needed to learn a "more powerful language" and suggested everything from C-sharp to D-flat. They were pretty funny to watch when I whipped out my old Mac and showed them the wonders of HyperCard...
Now, I'm learning how to dive in a little deeper and doing only a "little" hair-pulling. By the way, I don't think I'll be going with Enterprise tonight... I will likely go with the first level of pro and build from there. I was trying to understand what you're saying, below, about replacing the (cr & cr) with cr, and don't see where you're referring to this in the original suggestion I'm working with. It is likely I missed something (important). It would be awesome to get times like 5 seconds, but I must admit that I'll be happy to just get it in the 'couple-of-minutes' range! One of the lines provided to me says: repeat for each line tLine in tData As I'm working with further 'massaging' of the grabbed text, I'm playing with some of this code and this one left me scratching my head (and there ain't a lot of hair up there!) -- what is the function of the (variable?) tLine in this text? I didn't see it previously declared in the script and wondered why this wouldn't simply be: repeat for each line in tData Instead. Again, I'm sure I missed something important, but I really AM paying attention. I also wanted to comment that one of the reasons I decided to go with Revolution instead of any of the other suggestions is the tone and helpfulness of the members of this list. I'm glad to be a member of a list where everyone seems to want to share ideas, rather than berate the newbies or 'one-up' the others on the list. Hopefully the developers remember those who bought in at the ground floor when they're rich and famous... (For those of you who've been around the Mac arena since 1983 (yes, I said "3"), think HyperCard, and FirstClass, etc.) Thanks for the support! Bob > Sannyasin Sivakatirswami wrote: > No turning back now... ;-) > > just fyi, most of us rev users would consider 25 seconds > to process 140 lines of text as very slow... > > Of course I never use progress bars. I've processed 2meg files of raw > text mailing lists > (loaded into a variable of course -- close to 20M lines) doing similar > "clean ups" > of empty lines and other garbage... in under 5 seconds. > > And, yes, several of us also fell out of our chairs the first time we > saw this. > > I wonder if the replace (cr& cr) with cr would be even faster? If all that's needed is to remove empty lines that should be another couple orders of magnitude faster.... -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation -- You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat. Albert Einstein. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
