Ah hah!! Just as I expected! There IS ambiguity in Transcript... err
Revolution!!! ;-)
Seriously though, this should be corrected. I am reminded that in
Foxpro a plus "+" can add two numbers AND concatenate 2 strings. How
is this the same you ask? Because in both cases the same thing turns
out to mean different things based upon context, which means I cannot
make a code converter that works 100%. No computer language should
even mean 2 different things using one convention. (Anyone at Runrev
listening?)
Bob Sneidar
IT Manager
Logos Management
Calvary Chapel CM
Major Caveat!
the item in Rev does not always mean what you may think it should.
The number of items in "a,b,c,d,e,f,g" is 7
The number of items in "a,b,c,d,e,f," is 6
The number of items in "a,b,c,d,e,," is 6
The number of items in "a,,,,,," is 6
It is the same with cr's (lines)
The trailing comma is not counted as delimiting an empty item.
This is true. And it's also worth noting that this might surprise you
when using negative indices.
So as well as Jims counting examples,
get item -1 of "a,b," -- returns "b"
whereas when getting and setting items by positive index
get item 3 of "a,b," -- returns empty (as you'd expect)
put "a,b," into tLine
put "d" into item 4 of tLine
-- leaves tLine as: "a,b,,d"
Best,
Mark
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