to removeLastCharFromEvey(recordList)
        (*This function will strip the last character from every item in recordList.    
         One demensional lists only please

        Returns list where every item has its last character chopped off
        *)
        
        set output to `[Unknown macro: {}]`
        
        repeat with each in recordList
                set ez to each as string
                set newEach to text 1 through -2 of each -- thanks John Delacour  for this technique
                set end of output to newEach
        end repeat
        return output
        
end removeLastCharFromEvey

Comments

I just found an old note... If the trailing character is a return character, instead of using (text 1 thru -2 of n) use (first paragraph of n) -- it's much faster Actually, the original note used the "(characters 1 thru -2 of n) as text" form, which, my testing shows... is significantly slower.

Here are my timings... Loop 100,000 times:

27 sec: (characters 1 thru -2 of n) as text

3 sec: (text 1 thru -2 of n)

3 sec: (first paragraph of n)

So I guess my note isn't all that useful, but at least it's documented -- matt at 12:24:01 07/26/04