A slightly disturbing problem about items

Jim Ault JimAultWins at yahoo.com
Sat Jun 4 19:38:38 EDT 2005


Quick follow up note:

Using a  †  as a lineFeed character would also make
....the number of items
....the number of lines
..>  yield the number you would want when the last item/line is empty

Further, this would work no matter what you set the itemDel to be, as long
as it was not  †
Therefore, tab lists would be easier to access, and I would imagine table
fields that were not completely filled, etc.

Beyond Rev, external data sources would automatically be converted to the
same number of readable lines and items.  This 1-to-1 match is important in
my work.

(note: you will likely want to remove the  †  before exporting to other
programs which don't need it or expect it.)

I use Applescript and Apple Events to access spreadsheet ranges from Rev and
often the last column or row is empty.  This sometimes causes problems, and
this technique fixes that.

Jim Ault
Las Vegas

On 6/4/05 4:19 PM, "Jim Ault" <JimAultWins at yahoo.com> wrote:




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