Re: Read from file, then display results

[Alex Tweedly]

Hi Marian - I'm a bit late responding - hope it's not too late to be useful.
I hope I properly understood the question ...
At 21:53 07/07/2004 -0700, Mark Brownell wrote:
on 7/7/04 7:30 PM, Marian Petrides at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have two questions:
>
> 1)  What I would like to be able to do is:
>
> Figure out a more general way to specify number of iterations for the
> repeat  (something like:  repeat with j = 1 to the number of words in
> file "AddressList.txt"
>
> How do I do this?
and Mark said:
yours:
  put it into AddListContents
  split AddListContents by tab
  repeat with j = 1 to 6
    put AddListContents[j] into line j of field "Results"
  end repeat
mine:
  put it into AddListContents
  set the itemDelimiter to tab
  put 1 into thisSpot
  repeat for each item j in AddListContents
    put j into line thisSpot of field "Results"
    add 1 to thisSpot
  end repeat
It wasn't 100% clear from the context if the field Results already had 
anything in it or not (and if it did, whether you needed to preserve that). 
If you didn't, then you could simply do

  put it into AddListContents
  split AddListContents by tab
  combine AddListContents with cr
  put AddListContents into field "Results"
If you did have something in the field, and wanted to preserve it, then 
what you would be preserving is the lines after N (where N is the number 
being replaced here). So you'd need to do

  put it into AddListContents
  split AddListContents by tab
  combine AddListContents with cr
  delete line 1 to the number of lines in AddListContents
  put AddListContents before field "Results"
But doing that made it clearer to me that this is over-complex. You could 
simply do

  put it into AddListContents
  replace tab with cr in AddListContents
and then
  delete line 1 to the number of lines in AddListContents
  put AddListContents before field "Results"
-- Alex.
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