Prior to this we were discussing how unwieldy this can be with a lot of data.
If he has a ton of data, like in the hundreds of thousands or even millions of
records, this can take an extraordinary amount of time, hence, the need to bite
off a little at a time.
Bob
On Dec 2, 2011, at 3:03 PM, Mark Smith wrote:
>
> Marty Knapp wrote
>>
>> In my scenario, how do I use the "GetDataForLine" command?
>>
>> Am I wasting time by converting my tab-delimited file to an array?
>>
>
> Hi Marty, I am no datagrid expert (more or less just stumble onto solutions
> that work for me) and I am not familiar with the technique you are using but
> I have used the following script to "read" a tab delimited file into a
> datagrid
>
>
> put url ("file:" & thefilepath) into theData
> set the dgText of group "DataGrid 1" to theData
>
> This assumes that the first line of the file is data, and not column names.
> If it is column names change the 2nd line to:
>
> set the dgText[true] of group "DataGrid 1" to theData
>
> Hope that is helpful...
>
> -- Mark
>
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