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[Jerry J]

Works in the message box.

On Jul 14, 2011, at 4:11 PM, Pete wrote:

> No problem.  I'd definitely try it though - I've been bitten before by the
> docs saying things that weren't quite true!
> Pete
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> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Jerry J <jhj at jhj.com> wrote:
> 
>> Aha! The docs say so! Learned something new today.
>> 
>> Thanks Pete,
>> Jerry
>> 
>> On Jul 14, 2011, at 3:51 PM, Pete wrote:
>> 
>>> Doesn't setting the wholematches to true deal with this?
>>> Pete
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>>> 
>>> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Jerry J <jhj at jhj.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Jul 14, 2011, at 2:12 AM, Keith Clarke wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> ...ah yes, of course, thanks Jim - I forgot that 'delete item y' is not
>>>> the same as 'delete item *called* y' !
>>>>> 
>>>>> So, would itemoffset help...?
>>>>> 
>>>>> put "1,2,3,4,5,6" into theNumbers
>>>>> repeat until theNumbers is empty
>>>>>     put any item theNumbers into n
>>>>>     do something
>>>>>     delete (itemOffset(n, theNumbers)) from theNumbers
>>>>> end repeat
>>>> 
>>>> In the case of 1,2,3,4,5,6 itemOffset will work, but a warning about
>>>> itemOffset:
>>>> itemOffset("2","23,24,2") returns 1 because the string "2" matches the
>>>> first 2 of 23. This is not applicable to this exercise, but might save
>>>> somebody some trouble. In a previous project I assumed that it looked
>> for a
>>>> matching *item*, but in fact it looks to match a *string*. Arrgh. The
>> docs
>>>> are correct, by the way.
>>>> 
>>>> --jhj
>>>> 
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