How do I Create a Custom Property, part 19,214,651
Ken Ray
kray at sonsothunder.com
Thu Apr 22 13:51:12 EDT 2004
>> The line count will always be the number of return characters + 1, as
>> it is assumed that there is data both before and after a return
>> character .
>
> On 4/22/04 8:53 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote:
>
> > Is this true?
>
> There's an exception for a one-line string with a trailing
> return. I.e.:
>
> this is line one <CR>
>
> Which returns "1" as the number of lines.
Sorry, Tom, that's not true. If you end a string with a delimiter, you get
the same number of lines (or items if you use ",") as if you hadn't included
the delimiter.
Example:
put the number of lines of ("Hello"&cr&"Goodbye"&cr)
--> 2
put the number of items of "Ken,Tom,Dar,"
--> 3
HTH,
Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
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