Re: Accessing the last item in a line

Unfortunately not, at least if you count items like I do :-) The number of items of "a,b,c" is three and the number of items of "a,b," is 2, but I want that last empty item to be counted. But it's moot now anyway, I've started to use an array with numbered keys instead of an item string and that

Re: Accessing the last item in a line

Jacque- Monday, August 22, 2011, 8:20:46 AM, you wrote: > It's come up many times before. The delimiter belongs to the item before > it. That's true of both items and lines. How many lines are in each of > these examples: > This is line one. > This is line two. > This is line one. > This is l

Re: Accessing the last item in a line

Pete- Monday, August 22, 2011, 10:14:18 AM, you wrote: > Unfortunately, I don't know in advance how many items there are in the > string, probably didn't explain that clearly but the root of the problem is "the number of items of" will give you that. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net _

Re: Accessing the last item in a line

Unfortunately, I don't know in advance how many items there are in the string, probably didn't explain that clearly but the root of the problem is that I have to refer to item -1 of the string and "a,b,c" returns "c" and "a,b," returns "b" - same number of delimiters, different result. Wasn't the

Re: Accessing the last item in a line

I think it's the equivalent behavior of the last line. If the last char is a cr, then the last line would be the last line with something in it. Makes sense if you think about it. Bob On Aug 21, 2011, at 2:50 PM, Pete wrote: > It seems that if the last item in a string is empty, then trying

Re: Accessing the last item in a line

On 8/22/11 1:12 AM, Pete wrote: Thanks Jim and Mark. I think maybe I used the wrong word when I said "expected" since that's kind of in the eye of the beholder! This beholder finds it entirely unexpected. It means that a string of "a,b," is the same as a string of "a,b" as far as number of ite

Re: Accessing the last item in a line

Hi Pete, You can use this method regardless of whether the last item is actually empty, provided that you want to include the last item even if it's empty. If you add an itemdelimiter, you change the number of items though. By adding a char the moment you count the items, you always get the cor

Re: Accessing the last item in a line

Thanks Jim and Mark. I think maybe I used the wrong word when I said "expected" since that's kind of in the eye of the beholder! This beholder finds it entirely unexpected. It means that a string of "a,b," is the same as a string of "a,b" as far as number of items is concerned and that doesn't s

Re: Accessing the last item in a line

Yes, this is expected behavior. If the last item or line delimiter is the delimiter char, then there is no 'last item as empty' You could do a simple modification    put the last item of (myItemList & the itemDel) into theLogicalLastItem  Jim Ault Las Vegas --- On Sun, 8/21/11, Pete wrote: Fr

Re: Accessing the last item in a line

Yes, this is expected behaviour. If you want to count the last item if it is empty use Item (number of items of (myVar & "x")) of myVar -- Kind regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Http://economy-x-talk.com Share the clipboard of your computer over a local network with Clipboard Link http