repeat . . . delimit by

[Roger Eller]

So, what you want is to set the itemDel temporarily in the repeat, and
return to the previous itemDel after end repeat. Is this correct?

~Roger
On Sep 15, 2013 11:15 AM, "Dr. Hawkins" <dochawk at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Roger Eller <roger.e.eller at sealedair.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Would using a function do the trick?
> >
> > repeat for each item theDat in delimitBy(theData,vtab)
> > do something
> > end repeat
> >
> > function delimitBy pData,pDel
> >     set the itemDel to pDel
> >     return pData -- unaltered data
> > end delimitB
> >
>
> Not if the repeat works the way I think it does . . .  I don't think that
> the function would get called on each iteration.
>
> What got me thinking was when I discovered that changing the itemDel to tab
> inside my loop would cause the repeat to continue parsing with tab, not
> vtabl
>
>
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