Format text data records for processing in Livecode

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Tue Feb 26 18:11:48 EST 2019


Kaveh Bazargan wrote:

 > My use case might be unusual in that I have several itemdelimiters in
 > the same text. I need to record what each one is, but they must not be
 > the same. I might be going off topic here, but I thought it is a
 > simple way of generating a text that is guaranteed to be unique.

The UUID function is ideal for getting a unique string.

But maybe simpler, have you considered using an array?

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