lineoffset question

[Klaus major-k]

Hi Larry,

Am 12.04.2014 um 16:38 schrieb larry at significantplanet.org:

> I'm using 6.1.1 (rc 4) on XP Service Pack 3
> 
> I have the following line in my script:
> set the hilitedline of field myGames to lineoffset(field myShort,field myGames)
> The line works just fine.  However, if I add the optional Lines to Skip, like this:
> set the hilitedline of field myGames to lineoffset(field myShort,field myGames,1)
> then I get an incorrect result - the hilitedline is a line that does NOT have the string [field myShort] in it.  The hilitedline is the line prior to the correct line. For example, line 67 instead of the correct line of 68.
> Furthermore, when I used a variable for Lines to Skip within a repeat statement and then stepped through in debugging, the variable would start off as 1, then go to 7 but in the next repeat it would revert back to 1 - even though the debug showed no change of the variable.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.

you have to add the OFFSET manually to the resulting line number! :-)
...
put 1 into tOffset
set the hilitedline of field myGames to (lineoffset(field "myShort",field "myGames",tOffset) + tOffset)
...

And don't forget to put quotes around object names 8-)

> Larry

Best

Klaus

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