Re: What's an item ?

2004-07-20 Thread Alex Tweedly
At 20:50 19/07/2004 -0700, Rob Cozens wrote: Any clues for me on "how to think of an item" ? Perhaps it would help to consider items as lines (ie: the itemDelimiter = return). the number of lines of "This is a line" = the number of lines of "This is a line"&return Thanks Rob - just exactly what

Re: What's an item ?

2004-07-19 Thread Rob Cozens
Any clues for me on "how to think of an item" ? Hi Alex, An item is a string of chars delimited by a specified delimiter character. All the characters up to the first delimiter character (or the end of the string, whichever comes first) constitute the first item. If there are no characters bef

What's an item ?

2004-07-19 Thread Alex Tweedly
"What's an item?" seems like a pretty basic question. And I thought I knew the answer - until I spent some time this evening debugging what seemed like a trivial problem. The essence of the problem can be described briefly: put the number of items in "a,b,c" -->