Repeat until (0r "while") not working

[Michael J. Lew]

Tried this in the message box: put the number of lines in ("This is a 
test" & CR)
=>1

The transcript does what it should. The confusion is that the CR is 
part of the line that it ends, not the second line whose existence it 
seems to imply.

At 11:03 PM -0500 10/8/05, Ken Ray wrote:
>Here's the
>stuff I found when I put (CR & CR & "This is a test" & CR & CR) into a field
>and then ran the original code:
>
>>  put fld "transcript" into tFinalTranscript
>>
>>  # clean up extra lines at beginning and end
>>
>>  repeat while ((line 1 of tFinalTranscript) is empty)
>>     delete line 1 of tFinalTranscript
>>  end repeat
>>
>>  repeat until ((the last line of tFinalTranscript) is not empty)
>>     delete the last line of  tFinalTranscript
>>  end repeat
>>
>>  put tFinalTranscript
>>  exit to top
>
>
>- It removed all the CRs from the beginning of the string
>- I removed the only one of the CRs from the end of the string
>
>Leaving me with:  "This is a test" & CR

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Michael J. Lew

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Department of Pharmacology
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