Repeat loop index

[erik hansen]

--- Dar Scott <dsc at swcp.com> wrote:
> I think the situation is this:
> 
> put (the number of lines in tText) into tTotal
> repeat with i = 1 to tTotal
>     doSomething( i, line i of tText )
>  -- use both # & line
> end repeat
> 
> is slower than
> 
> put 0 into tCounter
> repeat for each line tLine of tText
>    add 1 to tCounter
>    doSomething(tCounter, tLine)  
> -- use both # & line
> end repeat

so tLine is the contents of the line?
i had thought tLine was a kind of
counter/pointer.

this is helping a lot, thanks.

Erik

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