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Understanding a repeat loop (strings/characters)
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Understanding a repeat loop (strings/characters)


  • Subject: Understanding a repeat loop (strings/characters)
  • From: Jeffrey Mattox <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:36:26 -0600

I'm trying to understand what is happening here:

set theString to (call method "getThing")
log (class of theString as string) -- "Unicode text"
repeat with theChar in theString
-- do things with each character
end repeat

The "repeat with" loops once for each character of theString, and that's what I want to happen. But, since theString is not a list, can somebody explain why the loop variable is fed each character rather than the entire string?

Jeff
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