Inconsistent behavior...

[xbury.cs at clearstream.com]

my mistake. The script calling this function had a bug!
Sorry!

Xavier

> -----Original Message-----
> From: xbury.cs at clearstream.com [mailto:xbury.cs at clearstream.com]
> Sent: 18 April 2002 11:33
> To: metacard at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Inconsistent behavior...
> 
> 
> Here's an extremely fast search function.
> The function filters lines from a variable (olist) containing 
> a string...
> 
> function FilterLines olist,str
>  set the wholematches to false
>  put 1 into thisline
>   put "" into nulist
>   repeat while thisline > 0
>     set cursor to busy
>     
>     put LineOffset(str,olist) into thisline
>     put line thisline of olist & return after nulist
>     delete line 1 to thisline of olist
>     if olist is empty then exit repeat
>     
>   end repeat
>   return nulist
> end FilterLines
> 
> my olist looks contains 
> 4/16/02,11:15 AM,BUFFET,F,543923,15571
> 4/16/02,11:15 AM,BUFFET,E,475933,53211
> 4/16/02,11:15 AM,BUFFET,D,441937,31518
> 4/16/02,11:15 AM,BUFFET,C,15,14
> 4/12/02,12:51 PM,BUFFET,F,543923,40982
> 4/12/02,12:51 PM,BUFFET,E,475933,56361
> 4/12/02,12:51 PM,BUFFET,D,441937,27808
> 4/12/02,12:51 PM,BUFFET,C,15,14
> 
> The string im searching for is ","&"F" &","
> 
> When I do the search, with wholematches = true (first line in 
> FilterLines)
> only the first line is found... If I set wholematches to 
> false, it finds all
> the lines...
> Of course, I tried to change the searchstring to "BUFFET,F," 
> but there is no
> change.
> 
> Can anyone see the problem? I can't search for F alone...
> Changing the comma in the lists would mean too much 
> programming changes in
> my application...
> 
> Why can't this work???
> 
> Thanks for any help...
> Xavier
> 
> 
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