repeat with i=

[Pete]

Doesn't setting the wholematches to true deal with this?
Pete
Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com>




On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Jerry J <jhj at jhj.com> wrote:

> On Jul 14, 2011, at 2:12 AM, Keith Clarke wrote:
>
> > ...ah yes, of course, thanks Jim - I forgot that 'delete item y' is not
> the same as 'delete item *called* y' !
> >
> > So, would itemoffset help...?
> >
> > put "1,2,3,4,5,6" into theNumbers
> > repeat until theNumbers is empty
> >       put any item theNumbers into n
> >       do something
> >       delete (itemOffset(n, theNumbers)) from theNumbers
> > end repeat
>
> In the case of 1,2,3,4,5,6 itemOffset will work, but a warning about
> itemOffset:
> itemOffset("2","23,24,2") returns 1 because the string "2" matches the
> first 2 of 23. This is not applicable to this exercise, but might save
> somebody some trouble. In a previous project I assumed that it looked for a
> matching *item*, but in fact it looks to match a *string*. Arrgh. The docs
> are correct, by the way.
>
> --jhj
>
>
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