Repeat syntax addition

[Mike Bonner]

Actually, if the container is on the receiving end rather than the source
end, it wouldn't work. But other than that, yeah.  (obviously you can't
"put" something into a function)  There may be other exceptions I haven't
though of.

On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 2:41 PM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:

> Most likely yeah.  I wouldn't swear 100% (I like to TRY first lol) but it
> SHOULD work.
>
> On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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