Hi, Thanks for your input. I thought my script was neat and organised and utilised subs, I guess my standard is much lower than yours. I try not to use too many subs as most of my scripting is short and simple, and I fear overkill if I do use subs. But your advice on mental powers seems to be true, I am now finding it difficult to cure what can only be a simple bug. Going back to the drawing board may be inefficient in this case as the script is almost there, I can feel it. The mistake I made was pausing from the work for a few days and then to come back to it scratching my head. I will await further responses at the same time give debugging another shot and if it does not work I will have to follow your advice.
Many thanks. ############################################################################# "R. Joseph Newton" wrote: > Hi Aim, > > It is hard to say what is going on here. It will become progressively more > difficult, ranging to impossible, as your task becomes larger without functional > decomposition. The material you are working with is sophisticated science. You > simply cannot do justice to the complexity of the processes while keeping them all > in one lexical and procedural scope. > > I'm fatalistic. People rarely actually take my advice. I'm going to give you some > anyway. Suspend this project, and work on the process of organizing your task into > named subroutines. You have better things to do with your mental powers than trying > to keep track of how one line of code is going to interact with hundreds or > thousands of others. This might delay your project somewhat, but in the long run, > it will speed your work dramatically. > > Break your problem down into manageable chunks. > > Joseph > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
