Extracting a column

[Ian Wood]

On 10 Dec 2007, at 07:21, Éric Miclo wrote:

> Does somebody know if there is a "quick" way to extract a column  
> from a tab limited list (in a field or a variable)?
> By "quick" I mean I'm not obliged to cycle through all the lines of  
> my var because it can be quite long.

I think you're stuck with looping through and getting 'item 2 of line  
x'.

Out of interest, how big are your variables? On a 2GHz MBP Rev loops  
through around five lines per millisecond in the test I just did.

Ian