So to give you a full sense of the ugliness of the CSV I am working with, here it is: (trying to add certain columns but because some columns have multiple "thousand dollar+ amounts, it throws doing an item count. Need to get rid of all dollar signs (easy) and all the commas that are part of a thousand+ dollar amount) -------------------
,3rd Party,Bakery,Bar,Catering,Delivery,Dine In,Drive Thru,Take Out,,Vending,Total, 8:00 AM,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$406.43,,$0.00,$406.43, 9:00 AM,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,,$0.00,$0.00, 10:00 AM,$40.74,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$52.41,$0.00,$200.69,,$0.00,$293.84, 11:00 AM,$538.14,$3.29,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$581.30,$0.00,$165.93,,$0.00,"$1,288.66", 12:00 PM,$184.11,$3.29,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$745.68,$0.00,$274.36,,$0.00,"$1,207.44", 1:00 PM,$89.06,$12.87,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$741.65,$0.00,$132.26,,$0.00,$975.84, 2:00 PM,$216.86,$12.47,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$604.86,$0.00,$90.32,,$0.00,$924.51, 3:00 PM,$160.69,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$404.66,$0.00,$37.86,,$0.00,$603.21, 4:00 PM,$68.31,$33.71,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$349.46,$0.00,$323.34,,$0.00,$774.82, 5:00 PM,$286.31,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$625.92,$0.00,$253.94,,$0.00,"$1,166.17", 6:00 PM,$500.66,$36.11,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$790.25,$0.00,$609.95,,$0.00,"$1,936.97", 7:00 PM,$224.81,$26.95,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,"$1,038.03",$0.00,$137.17,,$0.00,"$1,426.96", 8:00 PM,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$55.46,$0.00,$7.10,,$0.00,$62.56, 9:00 PM,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$2.75,$0.00,$0.00,,$0.00,$2.75, 10:00 PM,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,,$0.00,$0.00, Total,"$2,309.69",$128.69,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,"$5,992.43",$0.00,"$2,639.35",,$0.00,"$11,070.16", ,,,,,,,,,,,,Page 1 of 1 On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 1:41 PM Mark Wieder via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > On 7/29/21 9:24 AM, Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode wrote: > > As grepophile, I'd go for some variation on > > While I heartily approve of Ben's use of grep, here's another approach > using an array. Note that is somewhat specific to your data set, and > from the looks of the data my guess is that you're heading down the path > of csv madness. > > on mouseUp pMouseBtnNo > local tVar, tHeader, tCount, tOriginal > > put field 1 into tVar > put line 1 of tVar into tHeader > delete line 1 of tVar > split tVar by cr > > repeat for each key tKey in tVar > # transform "$8,303.32" into "$8303.32" > repeat for each trueword tTrueWord in tVar[tKey] > put tTrueWord into tOriginal > replace comma with empty in tTrueWord > replace tOriginal with tTrueWord in tVar[tKey] > end repeat > # now we can deal with commas as itemDelimiters > put 1 into tCount > repeat for each item tWord in tVar[tKey] > put tWord into tVar[tKey][tCount] > add 1 to tCount > end repeat > end repeat # for each key tKey in tVar > > # now pick out the desired total > local tTotal, tOffset > put itemoffset("Total", tHeader) into tOffset > put tVar[5][tOffset] into tTotal > breakpoint > end mouseUp > > -- > Mark Wieder > ahsoftw...@gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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