Any suggestions?

[Peter M. Brigham]

On Jul 22, 2012, at 7:28 PM, Chipp Walters wrote:

> Peter and Charles,
> 
> FWIW, I always use:
> 
> delete last char of theList
> 
> instead of
> 
> put line 1 to -1 of theList into theList -- no trailing return
> 
> It works with "item" lists, too and doesn't throw an error if theList is ""

Actually "put line 1 to -1 of theList into theList" doesn't throw an error with theList = empty. I use "delete char -1 of…" mostly too, but at times I use "put line 1 to -1 of…" or "put item 1 to -1 of…" for no good reason. It's true that deleting the last char is the more general solution after a concatenating repeat loop, it works for lines, and items no matter what the itemdelimiter.

-- Peter

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