Another way:
if char -1 of tList is the itemdelimiter then delete char -1 of tList
For short lists, item 1 to -1 is faster. For long lists the above gets to
be perhaps 5x faster.
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Devin Asay <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Aug 12, 2013, at 10:51 AM, Mark Wieder wrote:
>
> > Terry-
> >
> > Sunday, August 11, 2013, 11:04:26 PM, Terry Judd wrote:
> >
> >> Agreed - for practical purposes it's only 3 - although I still
> >> can't get out of the habit of deleting the trailing delimiter from a
> >> constructed list before processing it in a repeat loop.
> >
> > I do too. And for that reason, neither of us would have code that
> > would be affected by changing the way items and lines are counted. But
> > there *is* other legacy code out there that does rely on the current
> > behavior.
>
>
> You know how I get rid of trailing delimiters?
>
> put line 1 to -1 of tList into tList
>
> put item 1 to -1 of tItems into tItems
>
> Kills that dang dangling delimiter dead.
>
> Devin
>
>
> Devin Asay
> Office of Digital Humanities
> Brigham Young University
>
>
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