Mark Waddingham wrote: > On 2017-06-22 23:18, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> With many chunk expressions, I would imagine it does. With line >> chunks, for example, the engine needs to walk through the string, >> comparing each character to CR, counting the found CRs as it goes. > > Yes - essentially that is the case (although technically it looks for > LF, not CR as currently - for better or for worse - the engine assumes > line means LF as the separator, and normalizes line endings > appropriately on a per-platform basis when you 'import' things as text > into LiveCode).
Yes, where I wrote "CR" I meant the LiveCode constant, which historically has been synonymous with LF - has that changed?
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