Tami, I'm not following. Could you back up and describe the business
problem you need solved? I am unclear whether you are starting with a
stack of order-dependent strings, i.e.:

Fred
Amerstein
12345
Mary
Matthews
23456
Mike
Johnston
34567...

or one stack:

Fred
Amerstein
12345...

...or something else entirely.

John



On 3/6/15, 8:37 AM, "Tami Williams" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>FUNCTION:
>nbrList ( items ; counter ; result )
>
>CALL:
>nbrList( "firstName¶lastName¶zip" ; "" ; "" )
>
>
>I'm looking for a way (if possible) to improve it so that instead I can
>call it without the placeholders, like this:
>
>
>nbrList( "firstName¶lastName¶zip")
>
>
>and get the same result:
>
>1. firstName
>2. lastName
>3. zip
>
>
>All suggestions welcome. Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
>/*
>
>// nbrList ( items ; counter ; result )
>// Recursively loops thru the elements in a return-delimited list and
>adds the order number to each element.
>
>Sample Input:
>nbrList( "firstName¶lastName¶zip" ; "" ; "" )
>
>NOTE: Do NOT enter any values for the "counter" and "result" parameters -
>only enter empty string (""); those parameters exist solely as
>placeholders for the tail recursion.
>
>Sample Output:
>1. firstName
>2. lastName
>3. zip
>
>Description:
>This function will recursively loop thru the elements in a
>return-delimited list adding the order number to each element.
>
>Author:
>Tami Williams
>www.asktami.com
>[log in to unmask]
>
>*/
>
>
>Let ( [
>counter = Case( counter = 0 or counter = "" ; 1 ; counter ) ;
>thisItem = GetValue ( items ; 1 ) ;
>output =  counter & ". " & thisItem
>] ;
>
>
>Case ( ValueCount ( items ) > 0 ;
>
>// loop thru each value in the valueList
>   InputsHtml ( RightValues ( items ; ValueCount ( items ) - 1 ) ;
>counter + 1 ;    result  &  If ( IsEmpty(result) ; "" ; "¶" ) &  output
>) ;
>
>// return the result
>   result 
>
>)
>
>)
>
>
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