parse a line into fields

[rev at armbase.com]

Quoting rev at armbase.com:

How do you copy the text of a field to the clipboard. I can then paste it into
the next mail and show you the text. Only 6 lines long.

Cheers
Bob

> 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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