Re: Understanding a repeat loop (strings/characters)
Re: Understanding a repeat loop (strings/characters)
- Subject: Re: Understanding a repeat loop (strings/characters)
- From: Jon Pugh <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 21:45:57 -0800
At 5:48 PM -0800 2/23/03, John W Baxter wrote:
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In an alternative initial definition of the language, in which text items
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don't exist and therefore neither do text item delimiters, one might write
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set aList to aString as list using aDelimiter [as [the] delimiter]
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and set aString to aList as string using aDelimiter [as [the] delimiter]
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That would be more shell/Perl/awk/sed/Python/whatever-like (cf split at the
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higher level, and %, #, %%, ## and friends in shell string processing).
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Jon P...did a form like that get considered in the early days?
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(I've forgotten what HyperTalk may have had.)
I don't recall any discussions of advanced string handling. HyperCard doesn't have any more capabilities that AppleScript does, which I believe is intentional.
Jon
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