Agreed Peter. The beauty of LC is the ability to piece together things to create a more functional whole. At some point we are just asking the devs to do all our coding for us.
Bob S > On Nov 4, 2016, at 10:05 , Peter M.Brigham <pmb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Nov 3, 2016, at 3:15 PM, Roger Eller <roger.e.el...@sealedair.com> wrote: >> >> on mouseUp >> set the itemDelimiter to "^" >> put line 1 of fld "fPRE" into PREE1 >> put item 1 of PREE1 into tJustTheItem >> set the itemDeliniter to TAB >> put tJustTheItem into item 1 of line 1 of fld "fTF" >> end mouseUp > > It’s pretty easy to do this kind of thing with some utility handlers. I have > a collection of them to enable me to process text in various ways, including: > > getItem(pContainer, pIndex, pDelim) > getNestedItem() > getColumns(pData, pColNbrs, pDelim) > deleteColumns(pData, pColNbrs, pDelim) > getGridCell() > replaceItem pList, pItemNbr, pNewItem, pDelim > > etc. This allows text processing (which I do a lot of) completely within LC > and turns script-it-anew-each-time chunks of code into one-liner calls. Most > of these are available in the Master Library, I believe. Or email me if > you’re interested. > > — Peter > > Peter M. Brigham > pmb...@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
