item delimiter defaults

Mark Wieder mwieder at ahsoftware.net
Thu Nov 21 17:24:40 EST 2013


Pete-

Thursday, November 21, 2013, 11:19:55 AM, you wrote:

> There's a property named columnDelimiter that defaults to tab but according
> to the dictionary, it's only used by the split command.  Maybe it's use
> could be extended to a new entity named "column"?

> put column 3 of tVar into ......

> If that were possible, it would be great if there was a global setting to
> change columnDelimiter to something other than tab

+1
I like the idea of a column chunk. I didn't realize that there was a
columnDelimiter property, and letting it separate text into columns
makes sense to me.

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-Mark Wieder
 ahsoftware at gmail.com





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