philosophically though, if you look at them, they're the same function. If
you consider an average text string as a " " delimited list, that it.
chris olive, cio
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-----Original Message-----
From: DeVoil, Nick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 4:59 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: GetToken or ListGetAt?
>Is there any difference between the GetToken and GetListAt functions?
Yes. For a start, GetToken is a string function & GetListAt is a list
function... so you can use GetListAt on some text, but you probably
wouldn't use GetToken on a list.
> Which one is preferable?
It depends what you're trying to do!
GetToken is useful when you are working through some text and you want
to get the next word, ignoring all white space & newlines
(or any other set of delimiters you might want.)
ListGetAt gets you the element of a list at the specified position.
So you could use it for a similar task, but only if every word was
separated from the next by the same character, like the comma in a
CSV file, list of database column names/values, HTML attributes etc.
Nick
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