Re: Strip characters without recursive loop
Re: Strip characters without recursive loop
- Subject: Re: Strip characters without recursive loop
- From: kai <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 23:41:56 +0100
on Wed, 20 Aug 2003 07:24:39 +1000, Duncan Cowan wrote:
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However I am confused by John Delacore's response:
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> A perfect example of why NEVER to use "the..." at the beginning of a
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> variable name.
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I have quite a few scripts lying around that use "the..." at the start of
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the variable name....
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does this cause conflict with some additions?
Although you were using pseudo-code, I believe John was referring to a typo
in your original - caused by our natural reflex to type a space after the
word 'the':
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set theString to "1234-56abc"
^^^^^^^^^
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set theResult to characters of the string whose kind is integer
^^^^^^^^^^
--> "Can't get every character of string."
However, I'm kinda curious, Duncan. With questions of this sort, there's
usually a pattern to the sequence of alpha and numeric characters. If there
*is* a pattern, then there may be another way to isolate the sequence of
numeric characters. Or are your strings in this case completely random?
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kai
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