Aha! The docs say so! Learned something new today. Thanks Pete, Jerry
On Jul 14, 2011, at 3:51 PM, Pete wrote: > Doesn't setting the wholematches to true deal with this? > Pete > Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> > > > > > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Jerry J <j...@jhj.com> wrote: > >> On Jul 14, 2011, at 2:12 AM, Keith Clarke wrote: >> >>> ...ah yes, of course, thanks Jim - I forgot that 'delete item y' is not >> the same as 'delete item *called* y' ! >>> >>> So, would itemoffset help...? >>> >>> put "1,2,3,4,5,6" into theNumbers >>> repeat until theNumbers is empty >>> put any item theNumbers into n >>> do something >>> delete (itemOffset(n, theNumbers)) from theNumbers >>> end repeat >> >> In the case of 1,2,3,4,5,6 itemOffset will work, but a warning about >> itemOffset: >> itemOffset("2","23,24,2") returns 1 because the string "2" matches the >> first 2 of 23. This is not applicable to this exercise, but might save >> somebody some trouble. In a previous project I assumed that it looked for a >> matching *item*, but in fact it looks to match a *string*. Arrgh. The docs >> are correct, by the way. >> >> --jhj >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 _______________________________________________ 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
