I must say that once I started using arrays for data storage and access, I
never looked back. Compact, fast, malleable.
Many years ago I thought I would take a continuing education C programming
class at a university. Knowing only HyperTalk, I muddled along until
mid-semester when the curriculu
On Fri, 1 Mar 2019 at 03:44, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> Kaveh Bazargan wrote:
>
>
> If it's working and you're happy keep doing it.
>
> At some point you may find arrays very powerful. This circumstance seems
> a natural fit for them, as they keep dat
Kaveh Bazargan wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Feb 2019 at 23:12, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>
>> Kaveh Bazargan wrote:
>>
>> > My use case might be unusual in that I have several itemdelimiters
>> > in the same text. I need to record what each one is, but they must
>> > not be the same. I might be going off t
On Tue, 26 Feb 2019 at 23:12, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> Kaveh Bazargan wrote:
>
> > My use case might be unusual in that I have several itemdelimiters in
> > the same text. I need to record what each one is, but they must not be
> > the same. I mi
Kaveh Bazargan wrote:
> My use case might be unusual in that I have several itemdelimiters in
> the same text. I need to record what each one is, but they must not be
> the same. I might be going off topic here, but I thought it is a
> simple way of generating a text that is guaranteed to be uniq
Some interesting ideas although I’m not sure why a changing separator is
useful. I generally attempt to stick with TSV but it won’t work in this case
unless I parse the data to remove the tabs from the text, however I may well
try this. At the moment I’m trying to use a simple tagging system.
What about accidentally choosing a codepoint that is already in the text?
I tend to use tab and return for spreadsheet data.
For text that needs to include tabs and returns, I use the ASCII codepoints
designed for delimiting data; Unit Separator ACSII37, Record Separator ASCII36,
Group Separato
My use case might be unusual in that I have several itemdelimiters in the
same text. I need to record what each one is, but they must not be the
same. I might be going off topic here, but I thought it is a simple way of
generating a text that is guaranteed to be unique.
On Tue, 26 Feb 2019 at 21:5
I am missing the point of using an ephemeral and unknown string as an
itemDelimiter. The whole point of such a gadget is that it can be used at
another time to undo, or redo, whatever data parsing was done earlier.
Is it that the delimiter is stored somewhere, and just for security it is
generated
code
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> Cc: dunbarxx
> Subject: Re: Format text data records for processing in Livecode
>
> Hi.
>
> Since you may have any number and kind of characters in any of the fields
> in
> each rec
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Subject: Re: Format text data records for processing in Livecode
Hi.
Since you may have any number and kind of characters
Hi.
Since you may have any number and kind of characters in any of the fields in
each record, I would append a character that is unlikely ever to appear in
any context. I like numToChar(202), but others like numToChar(3) or
numtoChar(8).
Then you can set the itemDelimiter to that char, and be sur
Hi,
I have written an Applescript that reads the headers and contents of selected
emails in Apple Mail. I am trying to decide to simplest method of importing
this data into Livecode to allow it to be sorted and formatted etc. Each email
is a record with a number of fields the largest field is
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