Repeat syntax addition

[Peter Haworth]

Wow, didn't know that, thanks.

The dictionary doesn't give any clue that's possible, just uses "container"
as what follows "in".  Does that mean that anywhere the dictionary uses the
word container, it can be a function call?

Pete
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On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 1:24 PM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:

> As long as you wrap your function in parens so that it forces evaluation
> first, then yeah.  Have the function do your filter, and then return the
> filtered data.  (not positive you even need the extra parens, but its a
> habit for me in cases like this.)
>
> repeat for each doesn't really care where the list comes from, so an inline
> function call is just fine.
>
> On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 2:18 PM, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Mike,
> > I like that.  Are you saying you can do that now?
> >
> > Pete
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> > On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 12:31 PM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > While not exactly whats been requested, this works pretty well:
> > >
> > >     repeat for each line tLine in (myFilter(sData,"abc*","with"))
> > >
> > > I like the way a where clause reads as in the OP, but being able to use
> > an
> > > inline function for data generation is rather powerful, and if all you
> > need
> > > is a filter, setting up a function to do so is pretty straight forward.
> > >
> > > On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Ralph DiMola <
> rdimola at evergreeninfo.net>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Wouldn't it be nice if you could:
> > > >
> > > > Repeat for each line tLine in tLines index tIndex
> > > > End repeat
> > > >
> > > > Where tIndex goes from 1 to (in this case) the number of lines in
> > tLines.
> > > > With such an elegant repeat loop in LC it kills me to do a:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Local tIndex
> > > > put 1 into tIndex
> > > > Repeat for each line tLine in tLines
> > > > Add 1 to tIndex
> > > > End repeat
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Ralph DiMola
> > > > IT Director
> > > > Evergreen Information Services
> > > > rdimola at evergreeninfo.net
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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