Thank you kindly. Mind you, it didn't start off clean. But that's the nice thing about LC, it's so easy to clean things up after the basic problem is solved.
-- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Dec 28, 2012, at 1:18 PM, Geoff Canyon wrote: > I'm a big advocate of clean functions, and I just want to point out that > this is really nicely done: clear, compact, efficient, documented, and the > function name itself perfectly describes what it does. > > Really nice! > > On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Peter M. Brigham <pmb...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> function offsets str,container,includeOverlaps >> -- returns a comma-delimited list of all the offsets of str in container >> -- third param is optional: >> -- offsets("xx","xxxxxx") returns "1,3,5" not "1,2,3,4,5" >> -- ie, by default, overlapping offsets are not counted >> -- if you want overlapping offsets then pass "true" in 3rd param >> -- returns 0 if str is not in container >> if str is not in container then return 0 >> if includeOverlaps = empty then put false into includeOverlaps >> put empty into offsetList >> put 0 into startPoint >> repeat >> put offset(str,container,startPoint) into thisOffset >> if thisOffset = 0 then exit repeat >> add thisOffset to startPoint >> put startPoint & comma after offsetList >> if not includeOverlaps then >> add length(str)-1 to startPoint >> end if >> end repeat >> return item 1 to -1 of offsetList -- delete trailing comma >> end offsets >> >> > _______________________________________________ > 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
