parsing data returned from "the foundLine"

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Tue Mar 2 23:27:50 EST 2010


David Coker wrote:
> Hello folks,
> I have a small 3 column list (tab delimited) where I need to check the
> contents for duplicate data that may be found in any of two fields or
> columns, then act on the line that contains that data if found. As an
> example, in my handler I'm using:
> 
> find "ABC-5678-A" in tData
> put the foundLine into tLineFound
> answer tLineFound
> 
> which correctly returns something like:
> "line 2 of field 2"
> 
> I've tried -several- different ways to parse the returned data for
> additional processing, but have yet to come up with the right
> solution. I know this must be extremely easy to do in Rev (there
> always is, it seems like), but I've run out of hair to pull in trying
> to figure out what I'm overlooking.
> 
> Any ideas or maybe a better approach that can be recommended?

Try: get the value of the foundline

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