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From: tomj@oakhill.UUCP (Tom Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Repeat until <syntax> ?
Summary: Use Repeat {forever}
Keywords: Repeat HyperCard Textfile
Message-ID: <1495@oakhill.UUCP>
Date: 8 Sep 88 21:58:22 GMT
References: <172@luna.UUCP>
Reply-To: tomj@oakhill.UUCP (Tom Johnson)
Organization: Motorola Inc., Austin Tx.
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In article <172@luna.UUCP> djnowak@luna.UUCP (David Nowak) writes:
>I was recently writing a script to import and edit text data on the fly and
>wished to set up a loop that would get a line of data...
>repeat until it is empty
>   <get at line and process it commands>
>end repeat
>...
>Dave Nowak
>djnowak@luna.dpl.scg.hac.com

You can use the following (I just used this a few days ago):
   repeat
	<read a line from the text file>
	if it is empty exit repeat
	<process the input line>
   end repeat

Hope this helps...
---tomj