Handling of final delimter (was Re: "this me"?)

[Terry Judd]

On 12/08/2013, at 03:17 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:

> Terry-
> 
> Sunday, August 11, 2013, 8:54:28 PM, you wrote:
> 
>> I agree with Mark that there are four lines there. The last one just happens to be empty.
> 
>> Terry...
> 
> I do think that's a matter of semantics of the visual display, though,
> and that's a different thing from the mechanics of how items, lines,
> words, chars, and tokens are counted.

Agreed - for practical purposes it's only 3 - although I still can't get out of the habit of deleting the trailing delimiter from a constructed list before processing it in a repeat loop.

Terry...

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Dr Terry Judd
Senior Lecturer in Medical Education
Medical Education Unit
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences
The University of Melbourne