Speeding up array initialization

[Rob Cozens]

>Let's say I have a variable S made of 100 lines of 100 items each,
>and I want to initialize each item of each line to 0.

Salut JB,

put empty into S
repeat with x = 1 to 100
   put empty into item 100 of line x of S -- creates a string of 99 commas
end repeat
replace "," with "0," in S
replace return with "0"&return in S

If you know regular expression syntax, you can probably replace the 
two replace commands with one call to replaceText.
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Rob Cozens
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