repeat question

[Kay C Lan]

I don't know the reason why, but your conclusion would appear logical. All I
know is that Richard Gaskin recommends when speed is of the essence always
test various solutions to determine the fastest, so you seem to be on the
right track:-)

On a slightly different note, I would like to hilight a gotcha when working
with the 'word' keyword in Rev. One may assume that in "Help, please?" word
1 is 'Help' and word 2 or word -1 is 'please', but this is not the case. As
fully explained in the Docs a word is whatever is between one or more
spaces, tabs, cr or quotes. So in the above case the words are 'Help,' and
'please?' ie including punctuation. Which of course is no good if you are
testing for an exact match to 'Help' or 'please'.

I had a script that scoured pages of text that appeared to randomly fail to
find certain key terms. It was extremely rare and took ages to track down as
it only occured when the key terms were followed by a punctuation mark and
therefore failed to match and trigger the desired script.

HTH someone.

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 11:47 PM, jbv <jbv.silences at club-internet.fr> wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> In the following loops :
>
>    repeat for each line j in myVar
>        repeat for each word w in last item of j
>        end repeat
>    end repeat
>
> is "last item of j" evaluated every time the 'repeat for each word w"
> loop runs ?
>
> I'm asking, because when trying the following :
>
>    repeat for each line j in myVar
>        get last item of j
>        repeat for each word w in it
>        end repeat
>    end repeat
>
> it gets about 20% faster...
>
> Thanks,
> JB
>
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