Using 'for each' to modify a container

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Fri Oct 13 01:07:26 EDT 2006


Robert Sneidar wrote:
> 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

FWIW, doing the data collection with the form "put...into line..." loses 
much of the performance value of using "repeat for each", as it requires 
the engine to crawl through mlist looking for mcnt number of CRs each 
time through the loop.

To counter this, some years ago Scott Raney optimized the "put...after" 
form, so you could have a second variable as a collector for things you 
gather during the iteration, and would probably see a snappy performance 
boost:

   put empty into tNuList
   repeat for each line tline in mlist
      put empty into word 1 of tline
      put tline &cr after tNuList
   end repeat


This practice of collecting from one source and concatenating to a 
different destination also takes care of the anomalies you noted when 
attempting to modify the source container within a "repeat for each" loop.

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Media Corporation
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