foundline() and linedelimeters other than return

[J. Landman Gay]

On 4/18/05 1:49 PM, R. Hillen wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I wrote:
> 
> on mouseUp
>   set the itemdelimiter to "|"
>   set the linedelimiter to "\"
> 
>   put "a" & linedelimiter into field "haha"
>   put "b" & linedelimiter after field "haha"
> 
>   find "b" in field haha
>  answer the number of lines of field haha & return & the foundline
> end mouseUp
> 
> 
> This Script return  2  lines with "b" found in line _1_ of field 1.
> I expected line 2 of field 1.
> 
> Am I wrong?

Well, *I* don't think so, but the engine does. I expressed an identical 
complaint about delimiters a long time ago, and was told that custom 
deimiters were just for text chunking and don't work with other commands.

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