Delete columns... How?

[JB]

On this the column to delete would
need to be joined at the end.

John Balgenorth

On Aug 29, 2014, at 9:02 AM, JB <sundown at pacifier.com> wrote:

> I am sure someone else
> can do it better but this works.
> 
> on mouseUp
>   put fld id 1056 into pData
>   set the itemdel to tab
>   split pData by column
>     put pData[4] into tType
>     put pData[3] into tSize
>     put "size = empty" into tSize
>     put pData[2] into tModDate
>     put empty into tModDate —THIS COLUMN DELETED
>     put pData[1] into tName
>     put tModDate into pData[3]
>     put tType into pData[1]
>     put tSize into pData[4]
>   put tName into pData[2]
> 
>   combine pData by column
>   put pData into fld id 1056
> end mouseUp
> 
> John Balgenorth
> 
> 
> On Aug 29, 2014, at 2:33 AM, FlexibleLearning.com <admin at FlexibleLearning.com> wrote:
> 
>> Related problem to 'join columns': How to delete a column of data?
>> 
>> This fails...
>> 
>> on mouseUp
>> get fld 1
>> split it by column
>> delete local it[2]
>> combine it by column
>> put it into fld 2
>> end mouseUp
>> 
>> It seems that 'combine by column' requires the same number of array keys as
>> the original data set.
>> 
>> Hugh Senior
>> FLCo
>> 
>> 
>> 
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