parse a line into fields

[rev at armbase.com]

Quoting Eric Chatonet <eric.chatonet at sosmartsoftware.com>:

> Hi Bob,

Hi Eric
>
> I would first check that the squares mean all the same char:

Yes I'm certain it is the same char.

> In the message box: put charToNum("9") with some "9" picked here and  there.
> If it's the same char (I think so): it's the delimiter (when you have 
>  1, 2 or  3 "9", it probably means that the data are empty):
> replace "9" with tab in tDataOutput
> put tDataOutput into fld "I want to see it"
> set the tabstops of the field according to its contents :-)

:-) I'm afraid I'm completely lost. Been working in a hospital for the past
while and my brain is not xtalking. :-)

I'll need to work on this I think. :-)


Thanks
Bob

> Hope this helps.
>
> Le 26 août 05 à 15:31, rev at armbase.com a écrit :
>
>> I've read a binary file containing entries in a database and put  
>> each record on
>> a line in a field.
>>
>> I dont know how to write in a wee square so imagine the 9 is a square.
>>
>> The fields has records in it like this
>> 999oppn9999date9999loca9999rslt9999fltr9999note9999rec1999rec2
>> 999rec399rec4999rec599rec6
>> Now the number of squares can be variable (normally from 2->4) and  
>> the line can
>> have blank spaces in it (not in amongst the squares)
>>
>> It seems like the squares are the delimiters. The first entries are  
>> the field
>> names  (eg 6 entries) the later ones (again 6 entries) are the data.
>> So I could get my data by counting the  number of entries in the line,
>> divide by two,
>> put the result into a variable varentries
>> --and put the entries into a field via
>> put item  varentries+1 into firstitem
>> put firstitem into field 1
>> put firstitem+1 into firstitem
>> etc etc
>>
>> But how do I ignore the squares and have them as an entry delimiter.
>
> Best Regards from Paris,
>
> Eric Chatonet.
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