Managing Long IDs?

[Scott Rossi]

Hi Monte:

It was just a simple example, but you made me realize I can probably
modify some repeat-for-each functions to use a different delimiter (at
least, I hope repeat-for-each will use the currently set item delimiter).

Thanks & Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, UX/UI Design




On 7/15/13 4:45 PM, "Monte Goulding" <monte at sweattechnologies.com> wrote:

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>On 16/07/2013, at 9:30 AM, Scott Rossi <scott at tactilemedia.com> wrote:
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>> For example, a line contains an object's long ID + comma + object's loc
>> 
>> If the long ID contains commas, parsing the line fails.
>> 
>> Yes, I could use another delimiter, but this involves changing code and
>> flipping delimiters in a bunch of places, so I was hoping I could use
>>some
>> kind of encoding.  Mark's suggestion will work.
>
>Ah... the curse of comma delimited everything... If that's the only use
>case then you could just use:
>put item 1 to -3 of theLine into theLongID... but it probably is
>worthwhile changing your data structure.
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>Monte Goulding
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