easy way to do itemoffset and lineoffset simultaneous

[Mark Brownell]

On Saturday, August 16, 2003, at 02:14  PM, Mark Brownell wrote:
>
> If I were going to do this I would not use lines as a delimiter if 
> that is possible. I'd store information as (3,18) 0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,1, 
> (3,19) 1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,  (3,20) 1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0, (4,1) 
> 1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0 (4,2) 0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,1 (4,3) 1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0 
> where "(" is the delimiter. I'm no expert at this but you could use 
> offset(), regEx, or split to extract your needed grid coordinates from 
> a single delimited string. This way x/y grid numerical values in 
> parentheses would not conflict with equivalent numerical values in the 
> rest of each delimited data if they were to occur.
>
> Mark

Follow up:
Try:
put "(3,18)" into myXY
put wordOffset(myXY, myDataString) into zap
put word (zap + 1) of myDataString into coordinateZap

so you would use a space as the delimiter for a string of data. You 
could even drop the parentheses using records like "3,18 
0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,1," that exist as two words for each grid coordinate. 
example: put "3,18" into myXY