Actually, "a,b" would be considered a single word both when using the "word of" format, as well as if the itemdel is space and you use "item of". In other words...
word 2 of "a,b cd ef" = "cd" and set itemdel to space item 2 of "a,b cd ef" = "cd" The only real difference between the two forms is if there are runs of spaces between words, like so: word 2 of "a,b[space][space]cd[space]ef" = "cd" and set itemdel to space item 2 of "a,b[space][space]cd[space]ef" = empty The "item of" gives an empty result because it is returning the text between the first two spaces, and there's nothing there. As far as putting a tab after the first word, this version is functionally the same as the offset() method I described before, but I /think/ the offset() method would be faster. Making simple conversion functions is very easy in LiveCode if you can make certain assumptions about the input data. The trick is often just finding the exceptions in large datasets that will trip up whichever function you pick. I once had to convert several months of transactions in a library database between two formats using, I think, Supercard. It was the weird edge cases that tended to trip it up. I kept having to add special tests for those cases as they appeared. ~ Chris Innanen ~ Nonsanity On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Alex Tweedly <a...@tweedly.net> wrote: > Beware this will get the (possibly) wrong result for some data. For > instance, a comma will terminate a word, so > > a,b def > > will give you a key of "aTABb def" > > rather than a key of "a,TABdef" > > I'd stick to the safer > > > set the itemDel to space > repeat for each line L in tData > put item 1 of L & TAB & item 2 to -1 of L & CR after tOutput > end repeat > > > or ... since they are key/value pairs, if (AND ONLY IF) you happen to know > that the keys are unique > > split tData by CR and space > combine tData by CR and TAB > > -- Alex. > > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
