Regular Expression question

[Robert Sneidar]

Well that brings up an interesting point. When I refer to a chunk  
"line x" in my example, Revolution does not include the paragraph  
delimiter, but in Devin's it does. How odd then that the  
interpretation of what is meant by "line" is modified by how you  
compare it with something else. Far be it from me to criticize  
<tongue firmly implanted in cheek> but shouldn't "line x" mean  
exactly the same thing no matter where or how you use it? Ambiguity  
in interpretation is programmer's purgatory. (Hey! A new Sly Saying!)  
Good catch though.

Bob Sneidar
IT Manager
Logos Management
Calvary Chapel CM

On Aug 9, 2006, at 8:07 PM, use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com  
wrote:

> Having been caught by things like this before, I would suggest a
> small modification to Bob's script:
>
> On Aug 9, 2006, at 12:21 PM, Robert Sneidar wrote:
>
>>
>> put <yourdatahere> into moldlist
>> put "" into mnewlist
>>
>> repeat for each line theLine of moldlist
>> if line theLine is among the lines of mnewlist then
> 		    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>   next repeat
>> else
>>   put line theLine of moldlist & return after mnewlist
>> end repeat
>
> This will work if the numbers in your list go to > 9 and they are not
> in numeric order. For instance,
>
> 10
> 10
> 10
> 2
> 2
> 1
> 1
> 1
>
> If you just check "is in" the script will skip '1', since 1 is in 10.
> The 'among the lines of' forces the comparison to only consider whole
> line matches.
>
> Devin
>
> Devin Asay
> Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
> Brigham Young University