Failing to understand the oddities of the "line" chunk

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What Jacque said.



answer the number of items of "1,2," --give "2"


Same with line delimiters.


Craig Newman



-----Original Message-----
From: J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Sat, Mar 17, 2012 12:35 pm
Subject: Re: Failing to understand the oddities of the "line" chunk


On 3/17/12 8:16 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote:
> This code
>> put "a" & CR into t; put "b" into line 2 of t; put t
> produces (as I would expect)
>> a
>> b
> BUT
>> put "a" & CR into t; put "b" into line 2 to -1 of t; put t
> produces
>> ba
> Why should adding the "to -1" change this to put the new data before
> what was there before ?

It's because of how the engine ignores trailing delimiters. The variable 
t contains only one line, so "line 2 to -1" evaluates to "line 2 to 1".

-- 
Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com

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