a couple hurdles I had with Rev

[Francis Nugent Dixon]

Hi from Paris,

Sometimes I hate you guys for finding such brilliant and
concise solutions, and sometimes I don't ..... !

(as the French say "Chapeau Bas", which roughly translates
into "Hats Off !")

But I always copy them  into my Rev Memo File, which has the name :

  ..............     "Even better ways of Revving !" ..............

As always - THANKS !

-Francis

"Nothing should ever be done for the first time !"

Jim Ault wrote :

> return the number of items in (tText&null)
>
> --now the count will be correct
> ---and very unlikely that you would choose an itemDel of null
>
> The same for repeat loops...
>
> repeat with x = 1 to the number of items in (tText&null)
> --do the right number of loops
> end repeat
> repeat with x = 1 to the number of lines in (tText&null)