Arrays for lists with multiple lines where item 1 is the same on N number of lines

[Mark Waddingham]

On 2016-04-22 11:42, Kay C Lan wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 3:59 PM, Alex Tweedly <alex at tweedly.net> wrote:
> put "43,131,6," into tStore
> put the number of items of tStore into msg
> sort items of tStore
> put cr & the number of items of tStore after msg

Here 'the number of items' is correct, it is 'sort' which breaks 
'trailing delimiter rules'. Here are the anomalies we currently know 
about where the engine does not follow the rules correctly:

http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14874 - revDBQueryList
http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14875 - put x into item n of 
y
http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14876 - delete item x of y
http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16588 - sort breaks trailing 
delimiter rules

A trailing delimiter *should* always be ignored by the engine.

A trailing delimiter *should* only be necessary if your string-list 
might contain empty elements.

Warmest Regards,

Mark.

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