Repeat until (0r "while") not working

[Chipp Walters]

Katir,

If you wanted to do it in a repeat loop:

repeat with x = the number of lines in tFinalTranscript down to 1
   if line x of tFinalTranscript is "" then delete line x of 
tFinalTranscript
end repeat

Sivakatirswami wrote:
> I'm missing something very simple here,
> 
> Goal: delete empty lines beginning and end of text chunk
> 
> ---------------
> 
> put fld "transcript" into tFinalTranscript
> 
> # clean up extra lines at beginning and end
> 
> repeat while ((line 1 of tFinalTranscript) is empty)
>   delete line 1 of tFinalTranscript
> end repeat
> 
> repeat until ((the last line of tFinalTranscript) is not empty)
>   delete the last line of  tFinalTranscript
> end repeat
> 
> put tFinalTranscript
> exit to top
> ------------
> It still has all the empty lines top and bottom. If I globalize the  
> temp variable for a bit, then test the field or the variable from the  
> msg box:
> 
> "line 1 of tFinalTranscript is empty"  returns true
> "the last line of fld "transcript" is empty" returns true
> 
> But these handlers are not deleting the blank lines as expected..  what 
> am I doing wrong? I don't think I need all those parentheses...  only 
> added to try to get it to work... still doesn't
> 
> TIA
> Sivakatirswami