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Re: text item delimiters maddness
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Re: text item delimiters maddness


  • Subject: Re: text item delimiters maddness
  • From: Kai <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 02:21:25 +0000

on Wed, 5 Feb 2003 15:38:32 +0100, Emmanuel <email@hidden> wrote:

> At 9:37 AM +0000 05/02/03, Kai wrote:
>
>> > set conDir to ((words 1 thru -3 of sceneFile) as string) & ":" --
>
>>To avoid _all_ potential problems using 'words', any routine that checked
>>for the presence of such characters would need to consider every
>>possibility.
>
> My 0.02 euros here: keep in mind that what "word" will perform
> depends on some settings of the system.

Good point, Emmanuel. This would make results even less predictable - and
'every possibility' could start to resemble the length of a piece of
string...

--
Kai
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