repeat question

Mark Smith lists at futilism.com
Sun Jan 11 22:14:48 EST 2009


Kay, in cases like that, it's worth knowing about the 'token' chunk.  
The docs give the lowdown...

Best,

Mark

On 12 Jan 2009, at 02:53, Kay C Lan wrote:

> 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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