strange code problem

[Phil Jimmieson]

>Can anyone tell me why the code in red will work if I "Step" through 
>it but as soon as I let it run normally I will get blank results??
>It seems to "skip" the second repeat but if I put an answer msg in 
>it, it reaches the answer msg!????

Hi Nic,
I don't think you're allowed to use split with a "for each"variable - 
you're not allowed to modify the contents of a "for each" variable 
yourself, and split effectively munges it into an array, which causes 
all sorts of weird problems. This has hit me before in my own code. 
Try the modified code below:

>
>put "truckRegNo,totalFuel,totalKM,month" into tHeadings
>   split tHeadings with comma
>   put "1,2,3,4" into tColumns
>   split tColumns with comma
>   put the number of lines in thisOne into sRecordCount -- "thisOne" 
>is a variable which contains comma seperated values like:- 
>B456ADF,1000,2500,2
>   put 0 into x
>   answer thisOne
>   repeat for each line thisLine in thisOne

put thisLine into workingline --use a copy of thisLine
  split workingline with comma

>     --answer x
>     add 1 to x
>     repeat for each element thisE in tColumns
>       put tHeadings[thisE] into tHeader

  put workingline[thisE] into tDetail[x,tHeader]

>       --answer sColumn[thisLine,tHeader]
>     end repeat
>  end repeat

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