delete chunk.

[Alex Tweedly]

I agree it would be great to be able to say
    set the payAttentionToTrailingDelimiters to true

But in the meantime you can use the fact that doubling a trailing 
delimiter will be ignored.
repeat for each line L in tData
    if the last item of (L & the itemDel) is empty then
       -- deal with an empty one
    else
       -- use "the last item of L" which is not empty
    end if

-- Alex.

On 03/11/2010 12:52, Ken Ray wrote:
>> Just tossing this out there, but I *love* this behavior. I'm sure there are
>> situations where it's undesirable, but are easily compensated for by just
>> adding another delimiter.
>>
>> Begin able to do the following is very handy and makes the code clean:
>>
>> put "foo"&  cr after fld "x"
>> put "bar"&  cr after fld "x"
>> put the number of lines of fld "x"
>>
>> Having that return 2 is extremely convenient.
> Agreed, but sometimes it's not convenient when you want to get the "last
> item" of a line; for example, if you have a container that holds columns for
> First Name (tab) Last Name (tab) Notes, and some lines have a note and some
> don't, you can't just set the itemDelimiter to tab and run through the
> container and get the "last item" or "item -1" of the line to check if the
> person entered a note; if they didn't provide one, then check the "last
> item" will give you their Last Name instead.
>
> It would be great if there was a global setting that you could toggle it on
> in these circumstances, something like:
>
> put item -1 of "Ken,Ray,"
> ==>  returns "Ray"
>
> set the dontIgnoreTrailingDelimiter to true
> put item -1 of "Ken,Ray,"
> ==>  returns ""
>
> :-)
>
> Ken Ray
> Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
> Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
>
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