Just starting out in iOs and LiveCode

[Gerry]

I'm embedding my own item delimiter character in the file for now (I'm using "\"). I then cycle through the text and grab each item one by one, putting them into lines of the field. It works, but there must be a better way.

Is the problem with my .txt file? I save it out of a text editor with Unix line breaks specified, and it's stored on dropbox.

Gerry



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On Friday, 4 March 2011 at 12:34 PM, Gerry wrote: 
> Just trying the put URL thing - pulling down a .txt file with UNIX line breaks, it seems to strip the line breaks out. How to I handle that?
> 
> g
> 
> -- photo site: http://gerryorkin.com
> 
> On Friday, 4 March 2011 at 9:48 AM, Nonsanity wrote: 
> > There are many, many ways to do this. The barest minimum might be:
> > 
> > put url "http://myserver.org/updatedata/latest.txt" into latestUpdateData
> > 
> > Then work with that data as you wish. 
>