finding data in field

[Joe Lewis Wilkins]

Hi Rob,

A couple of observations:

I assume it is: fld "fieldmatch" (and that you just omitted the final  
quote in the email) and that;
you've defined the itemDelimiter as being a TAB;

Not to be overly critical, but there is no need to be quite so  
cryptical with your names. We have an amazing "English-like"  
programming language, so why not use it. I know, key-strokes and all  
that stuff, but being more readable saves you time in the long run.  
Vars like fcdqty or not very meaningful; coming back to your scripts  
a couple of years later may be real "head-scratcher"!

Then, I think you should: Use the foundChunk function after a find  
command to determine where the text was found.

Script fragments such as you've provided are a bit difficult to  
follow. If I were you I would paste the entire handler into my email.

HTH,

Joe Wilkins

On Jan 6, 2007, at 11:25 AM, Robert Mann wrote:

> I have a field of names separated by tabs
>
> Label tab fcdqty
>
> Label tab fcd1qty
>
> Label tab fcd3qty
>
>
>
>
>
> What I am trying to do is find the second item then once I find it  
> select
> the first item in that line, below is what I have tried but does  
> not work
>
> find word tcolname in fld "fieldmatch" - -this seems to work
>
> put the selecetedline in fld "fieldmatch into tline - - this is  
> where I
> think my error is just not sure what to change
>
> put item 1 of tline into tncolnames
>
>
>
> any idea what I need to change to get this to work
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Rob
>
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