Using 'for each' to modify a container

[Robert Sneidar]

I have experienced no corruption of data, but I certainly have had  
unexpected behavior. Given:

put 1 into mcnt
repeat for each line tline in mlist
   put empty into word 1 of tline
   put tline into line mcnt of mlist
   put mcnt + 1 into mcnt
end repeat

As each iteration of the repeat loop progresses I find the data I get  
in tline is shifted to the right by the length of the deleted data.
I can only think an index is created at the start of the loop which  
points to a memory location, and since the data is shifting while the  
pointer does not, you must not change the contents of mlist until the  
loop is finished.

So I learned when using this form to either store the contents of  
mlist in a temporary variable and modify that, or build a temporary  
variable as I go until the loop is complete. Then I put the contents  
of that variable into mlist if that's what I want.

I have had no problems changing the contents of tline.

Bob Sneidar
IT Manager
Logos Management
Calvary Chapel CM

On Oct 11, 2006, at 5:45 AM, Mark Powell wrote:

> I want to use the 'for each' form of the repeat loop, but don't  
> know how
> to use it to modify data within a container.  For example:
>
> repeat for each line thisLine in vContainer
>   put doSomeFunction(item -2 of thisLine) into item -2 of thisLine
>   --how do I get the change back into vContainer?
> end repeat
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark Powell
> mark_powell (at symbol) symantec.com
>
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