Why isn't Rev more popular?

Jerry Daniels jerry at daniels-mara.com
Sun Dec 4 12:55:51 EST 2005


I have to agree with Sarah. I often want to see if a string doesn't  
contain another string.

-Jerry Daniels

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On Dec 3, 2005, at 5:16 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote:

> Yes, I know the alternatives, it's just that as we were discussing the
> limitations of Transcript's Englishness, I thought I would mention one
> place where it seems inconsistent.
>
> Sarah
>
>
> On 12/4/05, Chipp Walters <chipp at chipp.com> wrote:
>> You could use:
>>
>> if "fred" is not in myVar then...
>>
>> ?
>>
>> Sarah Reichelt wrote:
>>>> ...and that, of course, is the problem with Transcript being
>>>> "English-like"... you tend to think that it *should* respond to
>>>> English commands. In English
>>>>
>>>> hide field "xxx"    and
>>>> if field "xxx" is hidden
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The one that always irks me is "contains" and it's opposite.
>>>    if myVar contains "fred"
>>> This is simple and obvious, but there isn't an easy way to  
>>> reverse it,
>>> so you have to use:
>>>    if myVar contains "fred" is false
>>>
>>> where I always feel you should be able to use something like:
>>>    if myVar does not contain "fred"
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