Re: Flop Line of Chars?

2005-12-29 Thread Mark Smith
I can't think of one, but I wonder how big a deal it would be to change the engine to be able to do a reverse range, so that you could do put char -1 to 1 of ABCDEF into myBackwardVariable. It might be useful to be able to 'get line 9 to 6 of myList', for example, or maybe it should be 'get

Flop Line of Chars?

2005-12-28 Thread Scott Rossi
Is there a command or other means to flop a string of characters, rather than iterating over each character in the string? In other words, change ABCDEF into FEDCBA. I'm not against iterating, but I was wondering if there might be a more direct method. Thanks Regards, Scott Rossi Creative

Re: Flop Line of Chars?

2005-12-28 Thread Geoff Canyon
On Dec 28, 2005, at 10:41 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: In other words, change ABCDEF into FEDCBA. I don't know of a clever way to do this off the top of my head, but I do know that this: repeat for each char c in x put c before y end repeat degrades _really_ badly as the size of x