join columns
JB
sundown at pacifier.com
Thu Aug 28 15:25:07 EDT 2014
That is what I thought but once again thank yu
for the info and the clarification. It helps a lot!
John Balgenorth
On Aug 28, 2014, at 12:17 PM, Phil Davis <revdev at pdslabs.net> wrote:
> Before doing the 'split', you could set the columnDelimiter to whatever char is used as the item delimiter. In other words, you aren't limited to tabs as your column delimiter.
>
> Phil
>
>
> On 8/28/14, 12:10 PM, Phil Davis wrote:
>> If pData is a CR-delimited list where each line contains tab-delimited items, why not use 'split by column'?
>>
>> -- example: switch positions of columns 2 and 4
>>
>> split pData by column
>> put pData[4] into tTemp2
>> put pData[2] into pData[4]
>> put tTemp2 into pData[2]
>>
>>
>> -- then put it back together as a list:
>>
>> combine pData by column
>>
>> That should do it.
>>
>> Phil Davis
>>
>>
>>
>> On 8/28/14, 11:54 AM, JB wrote:
>>> Richard Gaskin wrote a function to get a column
>>> from a list.
>>>
>>> function GetCol pData, pCol --Richard Gaskin
>>> set the itemdel to tab
>>> put empty into tReturnList
>>> repeat for each line tLine in pData
>>> put item pCol of tLine &cr after tReturnList
>>> end repeat
>>> delete last char of tReturnList -- trailing CR
>>> return tReturnList
>>> end GetCol
>>>
>>> Does anyone know how to convert this so you can
>>> join the selected columns back together in any
>>> order you want?
>>>
>>> John Balgenorth
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> use-livecode mailing list
>>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com
>>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:
>>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
>>>
>>
>
> --
> Phil Davis
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> use-livecode mailing list
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com
> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:
> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
>
More information about the use-livecode
mailing list