Need to filter out items of list
Dar Scott
dsc at swcp.com
Tue Jun 3 14:36:52 EDT 2014
I recommend building a new string rather than deleting lines.
On Jun 3, 2014, at 8:35 AM, Charles E Buchwald <charles at buchwald.ca> wrote:
> Good Morning Skip,
> How about:
>
> put fld "super large blob of text" into tFieldText
> repeat for each line n in tFieldText
> if item 9 of n is empty OR item 15 of n > 0 then delete n
> end repeat
>
> ... not tested. But it seems like maybe you have something else in mind?
>
> - Charles
>
> On 03 Jun 2014, at 9:02 AM, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel <skip at magicgate.com> wrote:
>
>> Good morning coders,
>>
>> I have a very, very large field that contains some text from a tab
>> delimited dataset. Row 1 contains the headers. Here is my dilemma... I
>> need to filter out lines where item 9=EMPTY or item 15 is greater than 0.
>>
>> Any help or guidance?
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> SKIP
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