Mark, I must have screwed something up the first time, because I wound up with 31, even though I expected 30. When I just tested it, it came out at 30.
Alex's idea is also clever, but what if I am trying to repeat another character, like "#"? I was trying to avoid the solution Craig suggested by using a built-in construct, which made me think that we should have something like put 30 "a" into goop, but that is a recipe for failure, and put 30 "a"'s into goop is almost unreadable On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 4:38 AM, Mark Schonewille < m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com> wrote: > Hi Mike, > > Into item 29 gives you a string of 29 chars, after 29 makes a string of 30 > chars, into item 30 gives a string of 30 chars. > > > -- > Best regards, > > Mark Schonewille > > Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering > Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com > Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer > KvK: 50277553 > > Use Color Converter to convert CMYK, RGB, RAL, XYZ, H.Lab and other colour > spaces. http://www.color-converter.com > > Buy my new book "Programming LiveCode for the Real Beginner" > http://qery.us/3fi > > LiveCode on Facebook: > https://www.facebook.com/groups/runrev/ > > On 2/5/2014 04:14, Mike Kerner wrote: > >> <blink, blink, pregnant pause/> >> That's clever. It would be item 29, but that hardly matters. What's even >> more interesting about that is that >> put space into word 29 of mySpaces >> will give me a string that's 1 character long. >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > -- On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth On the second day, God created the oceans. On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours, and did a little diving. And God said, "This is good." _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode