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

Geoff Canyon gcanyon at gmail.com
Mon Aug 12 15:32:51 EDT 2013


Another way:

      if char -1 of tList is the itemdelimiter then delete char -1 of tList

For short lists, item 1 to -1 is faster. For long lists the above gets to
be perhaps 5x faster.


On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Devin Asay <devin_asay at byu.edu> wrote:

>
> On Aug 12, 2013, at 10:51 AM, Mark Wieder wrote:
>
> > Terry-
> >
> > Sunday, August 11, 2013, 11:04:26 PM, Terry Judd wrote:
> >
> >> 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.
> >
> > I do too. And for that reason, neither of us would have code that
> > would be affected by changing the way items and lines are counted. But
> > there *is* other legacy code out there that does rely on the current
> > behavior.
>
>
> You know how I get rid of trailing delimiters?
>
>   put line 1 to -1 of tList into tList
>
>   put item 1 to -1 of tItems into tItems
>
> Kills that dang dangling delimiter dead.
>
> Devin
>
>
> Devin Asay
> Office of Digital Humanities
> Brigham Young University
>
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