If you are not planning to change anything in the data itself, then you can use the repeat for each line theLine of theData form in your inner loop.
But I do not see the advantage of doing it in blocks of 50, unless there is something about the data that requires it. Bob On Jun 7, 2011, at 6:05 AM, Matthias Rebbe wrote: > Hi, > > i have a variable which contains data with unspecified number of lines. It > can be 3 but it can also be 9000 or whatever. > > I need to do some calculations with each line of that data, but want to do it > in steps of e.g. 50 lines. > > I thought i would do that with 2 repeat loops ( one within the other). > > Something like this > > > repeat with i = 1 to the number of lines of DATA step 50 > > repeat with k = 0 to 49 > do what ever with line (i+k) of DATA > end repeat > > end repeat > > > I could access each line then in the repeat loop with line (i+k), but how do > i take care if the number of lines are not a multiple of 50? > > Is my solution the right one or is there a better way? > > Regards, > > Matthias > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
