On Mar 13, 2014, at 10:17 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > Sure, that's what I'd need to do, convert each instance to items. I was > bemoaning the sheer number of times it would have been necessary in just one > night's work. It does point out the necessity for me to have a global switch > of some sort. > > Think of all the swapping you'd have to do within a single repeat loop just > to pull out chunks composed of different types of characters. A date followed > by a currency followed by a quoted string for example. > > On March 13, 2014 6:58:27 AM CDT, Alan Stenhouse <alanstenho...@hotmail.com> > wrote: >> Wouldn't it be simple to >> >> set the itemDel to tab >> put item 1 of line x of fld y into tDate >> >> >> Granted, slightly more work, but since itemDel changes are limited to >> only the local handler, it's not too big a deal, is it? >> >> Or am I missing something else?
I use the following: get getItem(line x of fld y,1,tab) function getItem tList,tIndex,tDelim -- returns item # tIndex of tList, given itemdelimiter = tDelim -- could just "get item tIndex of tList" in the calling handler but -- then have to set and restore the itemDelimiter, so this is less hassle -- defaults to tDelim = comma if tDelim = empty then put comma into tDelim set the itemdelimiter to tDelim return item tIndex of tList end getItem Very handy for pulling strings out of containers. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig _______________________________________________ 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
