Numbering lines

[J. Landman Gay]

You're right, split deletes duplicates. In fact, I use it as a quick way 
to do just that.

I don't see any way to add line numbers without looking at each line. 
But you could keep a counter in a variable and put the text into an 
array with the counter integer as the key. That might be faster than 
keeping a text list. I haven't followed this thread closely, so probably 
that's already been suggested.

I think if you remove the speed hit that updates the field scroll, it 
might get fast enough.

On 10/28/18 1:14 PM, David V Glasgow via use-livecode wrote:
>   I had believed that collapsing duplicates and alphabetising are unavoidable with split.  If there is an array method which doesn’t mess with the text message order or content, then I would be delighted.  Is that what this is below, but I haven’t appreciated it?


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