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[Jerry J]

Aha! The docs say so! Learned something new today.

Thanks Pete,
Jerry

On Jul 14, 2011, at 3:51 PM, Pete wrote:

> Doesn't setting the wholematches to true deal with this?
> Pete
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> 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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