Manipulating large qtys of text

[Ludovic Th=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=E9?=bault]

Barry Levine wrote:
>Is there an external that would speed this up or, perhaps, is there a 
>more efficient method for thrashing through the container?

try :
set the itemDelimiter to tab
set the lockScreen to true
set the lockMessages to true
put field myField into var
put 0 into tNum
repeat for each line l in var
add 1 to tNum
	put tNum into item 1 of line tNum of var
end repeat
put var into field myField