importing list

[Jim Ault]

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Another approach would have an advantage or two.
ONE - using a web address like http://website.com would not use the colon as
a delimiter, since the 'split' command only considers the first occurance
TWO - if any glitches occurred that added spurious lines that did not match
an existing field, these would be ignored. (eg. tab, space)
THREE - if your labels have a leading/trailing space this will get cleaned
off
FOUR -- filter rawData without empty

NOTE: I would recommend that you not use "/" in your field label (eg.
Principal/Director)  can lead to problems later with scripting.

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> repeat
>    put url ("file:/Path/To/Your/File.txt") into rawData
     filter rawData without empty
     split rawData using cr and ":"
     put the keys of rawData into fldnames
>    
>    
>    
>    copy card "template" to this stack --create a new card for the data
>    go last card
>    
       repeat for each line FLDNM in fldnames
         put word 1 to -1 of FLDNM into FLDNM
         if there is a field FLDNM then
            put rawData[ FLDNM] into fld ( FLDNM )
          end if
       end repeat --fld fill loop

> end repeat --main loop
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On 3/8/06 1:56 PM, "Devin Asay" <devin_asay at byu.edu> wrote:

> Liam,
> 
> If I understand correctly, your files contain lists like the one in
> your message, which repeat over and over in a single file. So one
> file might have many "records".
> 
> This is how I'd approach it:
> 
> Create a stack with just one card, a "template" with all the proper
> fields.
> 
> repeat
>    put url ("file:/Path/To/Your/File.txt") into rawData
>    put lineOffset("Name:",rawData) into recStart
>    if recStart = 0 then exit repeat
>    put lineOffset("Type:",rawData) into recEnd
>    put line recStart to recEnd of rawData into tCurrRecord
>    delete line recStart to recEnd of rawData
>    replace cr&cr with cr in tCurrRecord -- get rid of empty lines
>    copy card "template" to this stack --create a new card for the data
>    go last card
>    set the itemDelimiter to ":"
>    repeat for each line tLine in tCurrRecord
>      put item 2 of tLine into fld (item 1 of tLine)
>    end repeat
> end repeat
> 
> This is untested but should be mostly right.
> 
> Devin
> 
> On Mar 8, 2006, at 11:14 AM, liamlambert wrote:
> 
>> I have a large amount of plane text files that are laid out like
>> this Below
>> 
>> 
>> Name:
>> 
>> Roll Number:
>> 
>> Address:
>> 
>> Principal/Director:
>> 
>> Phone:
>> 
>> Fax:
>> 
>> Email:
>> 
>> Website:
>> 
>> Female Enrolment:
>> 
>> Male Enrolment:
>> 
>> Type: Primary
>> 
>> I want to import the info that is after the  colon into fields of
>> the same name as the list above the list repeats name roll number ect
>> Liam Lambert
>> liamlambert at mac.com
>> IRELAND
>> 
>> 
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> Devin Asay
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