François Chaplais wrote:
> Le 18 sept. 2011 à 21:34, Richard Gaskin a écrit :
>> For the data types supported inherently in HC, it's generally okay
>> because they don't include in-data commas (dateItems is a good
>> example).
>>
>> But by letting scripters put their own data into such chunks it
>> opens up a world of potential hurt, which is why SuperCard, OMO,
>> and LiveCode support customizable delimiters (the itemDelimiter
>> and lineDelimiter properties). HC would probably have added those
>> too had it lived long enough.
>
> The itemdelimiter could be set (and got) in Hypercard.
I guess it lived long enough for that. ;) Thanks for the clarification.
Maybe added in v2.0? It's been so long I may be misremembering, but I
recall a time when HC had no itemDel. By the time HC 2.0 came along I
was spending all my time with SC so I never spent much time with HC
after that, so my familiarity with its feature rollout is dim at best.
--
Richard Gaskin
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