repeat with i=

[Pete]

No problem.  I'd definitely try it though - I've been bitten before by the
docs saying things that weren't quite true!
Pete
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On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Jerry J <jhj at jhj.com> wrote:

> 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
> > 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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