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Re: Why save text item delimiters? Philosophical question....
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Re: Why save text item delimiters? Philosophical question....


  • Subject: Re: Why save text item delimiters? Philosophical question....
  • From: John Delacour <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 09:18:45 +0100
  • Mac-eudora-version: 6.0a21

At 9:00 pm -0700 16/6/03, Jon Pugh wrote:

Don't forget the popular implicit string coercion which uses the text item delimiters, that's the one that always bites people who forget to set them back.

[....]
set text item delimiters to {}

And don't forget that if you "set them back" to {} you are not setting them back to what they probably were when you started, namely {""}, which is not and does not behave the same.

Oh Lord! Next time I see text item delimiters in a subject line I really must remember to unsubscribe for the duration.

JD






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