Tab delimited data not working...

[Glen Bojsza]

Thanks...you are right the item works better. Some how I have been 
stuck on words from the last project...

regards,

Glen


On Friday, March 26, 2004, at 08:08 AM, thierry Douez wrote:

>
> Hi Glen,
>
> well, the chunk "word n" is giving you the nth word of the string;
> so, it's right but using item will work as you ask for !
>
> set the itemdelimiter to tab
> put item  3 of line 1 of fld "data"
> -- 23	tab	35	tab	76	tab	55	tab 	99 
> -- gives  ==> 76
>
> put item  3 of line 1 of fld "data"
> -- 23	tab	tab	tab	76	tab	55	tab 	99
> -- gives  ==> empty
>
> put item  5 of line 1 of fld "data"
> -- 23	tab	tab	tab	76	tab	55	tab 	99
> -- gives  ==> 55
>
> HTH
>
> regards, thierry
>
>   | I have a field which is filled with tab delimited data there will
>   | always be some "missing data" by the nature of the type of data 
> being
>   | collect.
>   |
>   | I have set the itemDelimiter to tab but that does not solve the
>   | problem??
>   |
>   | Example below I've "typed" the word tab to help explain
>   |
>   | 23	tab	35	tab	76	tab	55	tab 	99 	
>   | 	-- put word 3 of line 1 of fld "data"
>   |     ==> 76
>   | 23	tab	tab	tab	76	tab	55	tab 	99	
>   | 	-- put word 3 of line 1 of fld "data"
>   |     ==> 55  (shouldn't it give 76 ??)
>   |
>   | Is this a bug, limitation, or a bad assumption?
>   |
>   | thanks, Glen
>   |
>
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