number of columns in a table field

[Russ McBride]

Thanks Bill, that works nicely.

I don't know now what "viewablecolumns" is supposed to track since  
the number of columns in view at any given moment is different from  
it and the total number of columns is different from it.

And what's the difference between "currentview" and "formattedview"?

Best,
russ



Russ McBride
Programmer/Analyst
The Scholar's Workstation
University of California at Berkeley
510-643-6853


On May 30, 2006, at 2:37 PM, Bill Marriott wrote:

> If you're trying to determine how many columns the actual data has, as
> opposed to how many columns are visible, the following would work  
> (though I
> don't know if it is the fastest or most clever method):
>
> put 0 into maxTabs; set the itemdelimiter to tab
> repeat for each line x in fld "theField"
>   if the number of items in x > maxTabs then \
>     put the number of items in x into maxTabs
> end repeat
>
> I agree with you that the table object is extremely frustrating.
>
> Russ McBride wrote:
>
>> Anyone know how to get the actual number of columns and rows in a   
>> table
>> field (not the "viewable" number of columns and  rows?
>
>
>
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