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


  • Subject: Re: Understanding a repeat loop (strings/characters)
  • From: Geoff Canyon <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 21:29:23 -0800

HyperCard may not have had anything more, but several other HyperCard-like environments have implemented arbitrary delimiters: MetaCard and Revolution certainly, SuperCard I'm not sure about.

Bringing it back to an AppleScript context, all three of the above support execution of AppleScripts as well as their native scripting languages.

On Sunday, February 23, 2003, at 09:45 PM, Jon Pugh wrote:

At 5:48 PM -0800 2/23/03, John W Baxter wrote:
In an alternative initial definition of the language, in which text items
don't exist and therefore neither do text item delimiters, one might write

set aList to aString as list using aDelimiter [as [the] delimiter]
and set aString to aList as string using aDelimiter [as [the] delimiter]

That would be more shell/Perl/awk/sed/Python/whatever-like (cf split at the
higher level, and %, #, %%, ## and friends in shell string processing).

Jon P...did a form like that get considered in the early days?

(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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