Hi Larry,
The variable thisWord contains a copy of the item in the field. It
doesn't refer to the actual item. When you put "," after thisWord, you
change the string that is stored in variable thisWord, but not the
string that is stored in field justOne. If you want to change the
contents of the field, you need to create an updated copy and replace
the contents of the field with the copy, like this:
repeat for each word myWord in field "Just One"
put thisWord & comma after myNewdata
end repeat
sort items of myNewData
put char 1 to -2 of myNewData into field "Just One"
If you want to refer the items of the field directly, you can use repeat
with:
repeat with x = 1 to number of words of field "Just One" - 1
put comma after word x of field "Just One"
end repeat
sort items of field "Just One"
I could imagine that the following may work too:
replace space with comma & space in field "Just One"
sort items of field "Just One"
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On 9/22/2014 15:04, la...@significantplanet.org wrote:
Hello,
I have never been able to understand how to use the each form in a repeat
statement.
Can anyone explain why this code does not work? It is almost verbatim from the
example in the LC dictionary.
on mouseUp
repeat for each word thisWord in field justOne
put "," after thisWord
end repeat
sort items of field justOne
end mouseUp
It does not insert the commas. Supposedly the each form is a lot faster than
using
"put x + 1 into x"
"put "," after word x of field justOne
Thanks,
Larry
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