String/Substring variable length [Solved]

[antrax13]

Hi all,

I am not sure if this is the proper way of doing it but what I need is following.
I have values like:

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ABC1
ABCD1
ABCDE1

and what I need is to get:

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ABC
ABCD
ABCDE

Is there any function that will remove last character from string or do I have to find out that length of string and then select char 1 to totalLength-1?

Regards

[Klaus]

Hi antrax13,

no special function for this!
Use a repaet loop like this:

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...
## repeat for each.. is insanely fast, but read-only, so we fill a new variable here:
repeat for each line tLine in YourListHere
  ## Only use first to last - 1 character, 
  ## luckily we can count from "backwards" in Livecode
  put char 1 to -2 of tLine & CR after tNewList
end repeat

## Delete trailing CR
delete char -1 of tNewList

## Now do whatever you need to do with tNewList :D 
...

Best

Klaus

[zaxos]

How about that:

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Repeat with x = 1 to the number of lines of myvar
Delete last char of line x in myvar
End repeat

[antrax13]

Hi antrax13,

no special function for this!
Use a repaet loop like this:

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...
## repeat for each.. is insanely fast, but read-only, so we fill a new variable here:
repeat for each line tLine in YourListHere
  ## Only use first to last - 1 character, 
  ## luckily we can count from "backwards" in Livecode
  put char 1 to -2 of tLine & CR after tNewList
end repeat

## Delete trailing CR
delete char -1 of tNewList

## Now do whatever you need to do with tNewList :D 
...

Best

Klaus

Would your approach be faster than mine?

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put char 1 to ( the length of tField-1) of tField into withoutNumber

[Klaus]

Would your approach be faster than mine?

I have no idea!

[dunbarx]

I would have predicted this.

With a sample of 1,000,000 lines, and a "repeat for each" loop with the variable tLine:

delete the last char of tLine = 11 ticks
delete char -1 of tLine = 13 ticks
put char 1 to the length of tLine - 1 of tLine = 14 ticks

Craig Newman

[zaxos]

Its funny how I always get ignored over the moderators, embrace the power ppl, embrace the power.

[dunbarx]

Zaxos.

What did you mean, "ignored".

I used your example as one of the timed tests. Though I made all loops the "repeat for" style, as opposed to "repeat with".

Craig

[zaxos]

Not talking about you dunbarx, nor for any moderator, I think its obvious who this goes about, thank you for your tests tho

[antrax13]

Thanks all.

Special thank you for zaxos

[Klaus]

Hi zaxos,

you are "speaking in tongues"!


Best

Klaus

[zaxos]

antrax13:

Thanks all.

Special thank you for zaxos

Thank you for thanking me! thats all i needed

Kalus:

Hi zaxos,

you are "speaking in tongues"!


Best

Klaus

I had to google that since i'm not familar with that expression, wiki came up with:

Glossolalia or (speaking in tongues) is the fluid vocalizing of speech-like syllables that lack any readily comprehended meaning, in some cases as part of religious practice. Some consider it as a part of a sacred language. It is a common practice amongst Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity.

I still dont understand what that means! I'm not even sure if i should be offended , i do know thought that my text in not always easily understandable if thats what you mean, if on the other hand you mean that my words are meaningless then my answer to that is that we are not robots, people can and should be polite, it costs nothing, so stop being so judgmental and help me out here.

Craig, could you share with me how you tested this? thank you

[zaxos]

Craig? i thought it is "put the milliseconds" at the end of the handler but this gives me 1441046154985... I guess thats a bit too much.
nvm. the code below gave me 13 ticks, so i guess it worked

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on mouseUp
   local theVar
   local tTime
   put the ticks into tTime
   repeat 1000000
      put "test" into theVar
   end repeat
   put the ticks-tTime
end mouseUp

[Klaus]

Hi zaxos,

I still dont understand what that means! I'm not even sure if i should be offended , i do know thought that my text in not always easily understandable if thats what you mean,

no offence!
I just meant: The meaning of your talking is mysterious!
I other words, I have no idea what you mean with:

Not talking about you dunbarx, nor for any moderator, I think its obvious who this goes about...

Best

Klaus

[zaxos]

I see, so maybe i was unclear
This was obviously meant for dunbarx:

Not talking about you dunbarx

Now this was actualy for you:

nor for any moderator

unless i'm wrong, you are a moderator of this forum(?)

And the last part of which i thought was obvious was meant for antrax13 who was kind enough to saw me i was wrong at the end:

I think its obvious who this goes about...