One last item... once again, it comes improperly formatted source data. When the datagrid loads I need to sort it by date and then by time. However, my date and time data looks like this: Mon, Feb 11 TAB 9:59 AM
What would be a good approach to convert these two items to a sortable format? SKIP On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel < s...@magicgate.com> wrote: > I think it will be easier to go back and try to fix the source and how the > data is being entered in to begin with. I realized there was a issue with > one of the fields that allowed the user to enter multiple lines of data > under the "notes" field. If the user hit the RETURN key to type in these > notes, it is throwing everything off. > > SKIP > > > On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel < > s...@magicgate.com> wrote: > >> Thanks.. I had tried that but I was getting some funky data formatting >> coming in. Come to find out that the data in the log file has an >> occasional misplaced CR and LF embedded. >> >> Having said THAT, is there a way to strip out those characters? I know >> exactly how many columns I have in my field and each is separated with a >> tab. So I guess at this point what I am trying to say is there a way to >> clean up the data and still be able to determine a new record (row)? >> >> SKIP >> >> >> On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 3:10 PM, stephen barncard < >> stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com> wrote: >> >>> and if the first line contains the names of the individual fields on the >>> first row, you can >>> >>> put the dgText[true] >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Mike Bonner <bonnm...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> > set the dgtext of group "yourgroup" to URL >>> ("binfile:/path/to/the/file") >>> > should work. dgtext works directly with tab and cr delimited text, so >>> > should be easy peasy. >>> > >>> > >>> > On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Keith Clarke < >>> > keith.cla...@clarkeandclarke.co.uk> wrote: >>> > >>> > > Why not just put the file into a variable, set the item delimiters >>> to tab >>> > > and away you go? >>> > > >>> > > Just query the items of the first line to understand your (changing) >>> > > column labels? >>> > > Best, >>> > > Keith.. >>> > > >>> > > On 30 Mar 2013, at 17:54, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel < >>> > > s...@magicgate.com> wrote: >>> > > >>> > > > Hello LC's, >>> > > > >>> > > > I have a tab delimited text file(log file) that I need to >>> manipulate >>> > > every >>> > > > once in a while and extract data from it. Is there a good way to >>> read >>> > > this >>> > > > directly into a datagrid and manipulate it from there or I am >>> better >>> > off >>> > > > reading the file, loading it into a sqlite db and THEN manipulate >>> it >>> > from >>> > > > there. >>> > > > >>> > > > The text file I am reading is constantly changing so I can not >>> just do >>> > a >>> > > > one time conversion, I will always have to read from this file. >>> > > > >>> > > > This is for a desktop app, by the way.... >>> > > > >>> > > > Thanks in advance for your input! >>> > > > >>> > > > SKIP >>> > > > _______________________________________________ >>> > > > 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 >>> > > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > 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 >>> > >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> >>> >>> Stephen Barncard >>> San Francisco Ca. USA >>> >>> more about sqb <http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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