Comparing Rev to other multimedia apps at NECC

[Roger.E.Eller at sealedair.com]

> Joe,100 98 69 87
> Steve,90 80 86 72
> Nancy,80 90 85 95
>
>> Note this can be posed as a "real-world" problem:
>>
>> "The objective of this exercise is to calculate the total of a
>> specific sub-field in a file of comma-delimited text records.
>>
>> Fields are separated by commas and sub fields are separated by spaces.
>>
>> The exercise is to write a script to return the total of sub-field 1
>> of field 2 for all records in the file."

Here is another approach (needs 2 fields and 1 button).
I love how a single line of transcript can act as a simple calculator.
For Example:  put 1+2
result: 3

on mouseUp
  put empty into fld 2
  repeat for each line thisLine in fld 1
    replace space with "+" in thisLine
    put "put" && (item 2 of thisLine) && "into it" into theMath
    do theMath
    put item 1 of thisLine & "," & it & cr after fld 2
  end repeat
end mouseUp

Roger Eller <roger.e.eller at sealedair.com>