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[Robert Sneidar]

Ah hah!! Just as I expected! There IS ambiguity in Transcript... err  
Revolution!!! ;-)

Seriously though, this should be corrected. I am reminded that in  
Foxpro a plus "+" can add two numbers AND concatenate 2 strings. How  
is this the same you ask? Because in both cases the same thing turns  
out to mean different things based upon context, which means I cannot  
make a code converter that works 100%. No computer language should  
even mean 2 different things using one convention. (Anyone at Runrev  
listening?)

Bob Sneidar
IT Manager
Logos Management
Calvary Chapel CM

>> Major Caveat!
>> the item in Rev does not always mean what you may think it should.
>>
>> The number of items in "a,b,c,d,e,f,g" is 7
>> The number of items in "a,b,c,d,e,f," is 6
>> The number of items in "a,b,c,d,e,," is 6
>> The number of items in "a,,,,,," is 6
>> It is the same with cr's (lines)
>> The trailing comma is not counted as delimiting an empty item.
>>
>
> This is true. And it's also worth noting that this might surprise you
> when using negative indices.
> So as well as Jims counting examples,
>
> get item -1 of "a,b," --  returns "b"
>
> whereas when getting and setting items by positive index
>
> get item 3 of "a,b," -- returns empty (as you'd expect)
>
> put "a,b," into tLine
> put "d" into item 4 of tLine
> -- leaves tLine as: "a,b,,d"
>
>
> Best,
>
> Mark