Before doing the 'split', you could set the columnDelimiter to whatever
char is used as the item delimiter. In other words, you aren't limited
to tabs as your column delimiter.
Phil
On 8/28/14, 12:10 PM, Phil Davis wrote:
If pData is a CR-delimited list where each line contains tab-delimited
items, why not use 'split by column'?
-- example: switch positions of columns 2 and 4
split pData by column
put pData[4] into tTemp2
put pData[2] into pData[4]
put tTemp2 into pData[2]
-- then put it back together as a list:
combine pData by column
That should do it.
Phil Davis
On 8/28/14, 11:54 AM, JB wrote:
Richard Gaskin wrote a function to get a column
from a list.
function GetCol pData, pCol --Richard Gaskin
set the itemdel to tab
put empty into tReturnList
repeat for each line tLine in pData
put item pCol of tLine &cr after tReturnList
end repeat
delete last char of tReturnList -- trailing CR
return tReturnList
end GetCol
Does anyone know how to convert this so you can
join the selected columns back together in any
order you want?
John Balgenorth
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