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Why does 1+2 goes wrong and 1+2+3 does nothing; have a look:

get "Foo, John,Westerveen 29,9751 HT,HAREN,,,,,,de Heer en Mevrouw; "
put item 1+2 of it
answer="Westerveen 29", but I expected "Foo John
put item 2+3 of it gives "Haren", also wrong, expected "John,Westerveen 29""

But asking for more items like items 2+3+4 does nothing.

Why?

Hi Rob,

Why?

because the engine will first add 1 + 3 = 3 and deliver you item 3 (1+2) of it
You need to use the & sign!
...
put item 1 of it && item 2 of it
...
&& will concatenate two strings with a SPACE between them!


Best

Klaus

Rob.

What Klaus said.

But it isn't the space that is important, it is what you wanted out of your original construction. Extracting two separate chunks from a string requires two separate chunk operations.

Imagine you had a return delimited list instead, and wanted the first and third line as a new list:

Fred
John
Harry

I bet you will see that the following is a tad wrongheaded (PseudoCode);

answer line 1 + 3

Fred
Harry

You would rather: answer line 1 & return & line 3

Craig Newman

Hi Klaus e.o.

Is there not an equivalent of put chars 1 to 6 of "abcdefghijklmn"
answer "abcdef"

or

get "Foo, John,Westerveen 29,9751 HT,HAREN,,,,,,de Heer en Mevrouw; "
or put items 1 to 3 of it
answer "Foo, John,Westerveen 29"

It could make scripting a bit easier....

Hi Rob.

yes, you can:
...
put "Foo, John,Westerveen 29,9751 HT,HAREN,,,,,,de Heer en Mevrouw; " into tVar
put item 1 to 2 of tvar
## -> Foo, John
## Including the itemdelimiter, if that is what you want!
...


Best

Klaus

What Klaus said again.

It is just a matter of getting used to the syntax. If you look back, you will see that simply (mentally and physically) replacing "+" with "to" is all it takes to make it all work.

Craig

hi Klaus + Craig
Yes, changing the + to "to" is exactly I was looking for.
But where did I find that + ?: in "menus.rev" recommende by Klaus. BTW very interesting stuff all those rev's.

Hi Rob,

you mean in the "Menus" stack from teh scripting conferences?
Where exactly is this?

I just had alook at that stack and did not find any hint about
using + for concatenating strings.


Best

Klaus