Handling of final delimter (was Re: "this me"?)

[Mike Kerner]

Mark,
That won't work because LC won't recognize the last item as empty.  Thus
put "a," into goop
delete item -1 of goop
put goop
will end up putting empty.

I really want to fix this thing.


On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Mark Wieder <mwieder at ahsoftware.net> wrote:

> Devin-
>
> Monday, August 12, 2013, 10:30:29 AM, you wrote:
>
> > You know how I get rid of trailing delimiters?
>
> >   put line 1 to -1 of tList into tList
>
> >   put item 1 to -1 of tItems into tItems
>
> > Kills that dang dangling delimiter dead.
>
> Good one. I just opt for the chomp approach
>
> repeat while item -1 of tList is empty
>   delete item -1 of tList
> end repeat
>
> --
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>  mwieder at ahsoftware.net
>
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