comparing content of two fields
John Dixon
dixonja at hotmail.co.uk
Thu Apr 28 13:01:28 EDT 2011
> Be careful with repeat for each. You cannot change the content of the object or block you are repeating through. "Unexpected results" is an understatement. You need to work with a copy, making sure you don't add or remove the each element (each word, each line etc.) else you get out of sync.
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> Bob
Using 'repeat for each' with a counter is still faster than 'repeat with'
put 1 into count
repeat for each line thisLine in fld 1
if line count of fld 1 = whatever then doSomething
add 1 to count
end repeat
be well
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