Accessing the last item in a line

Mark Schonewille m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com
Sun Aug 21 18:31:47 EDT 2011


Yes, this is expected behaviour. If you want to count the last item if it is empty use

Item (number of items of (myVar & "x")) of myVar

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Op 21 aug. 2011 om 23:50 heeft Pete <pete at mollysrevenge.com> het volgende geschreven:

> It seems that if the last item in a string is empty, then trying to access
> it by using "item -1" returns the penultimate item, not the last one.  For
> example, given the string "a,b,"  item -1 of that string comes back as "b".
> This is on LC 4.6.2, OS X 10.6.8.  Is this expected behavior?
> 
> Pete
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