Works in the message box. On Jul 14, 2011, at 4:11 PM, Pete wrote:
> No problem. I'd definitely try it though - I've been bitten before by the > docs saying things that weren't quite true! > Pete > Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> > > > > > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Jerry J <j...@jhj.com> wrote: > >> 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 >> >> > _______________________________________________ > 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
