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[Mike Kerner]

Peter B,
If you don't mind, I would like to add your goodies to the codebase we're
building for csv handling.  I'll want to tweak it so that we use the other
code we already have inside, of course.

On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Peter M. Brigham <pmbrig at gmail.com> wrote:

> Although incorporating this into the engine is clearly the way to go, here
> are a couple of pure LC functions that are possibly relevant. They could be
> generalized to arbitrary line- and item-delimiters.
>
> -- Peter
>
> Peter M. Brigham
> pmbrig at gmail.com
>
> -------
>
> function tabTableToArray pTable, withHeaders
>    -- returns a 2-dimensional array from a tab-delimited table
>    -- if withHeaders = true then first line is treated as column titles
>    --    and first column is treated as row titles,
>    --    data is stored as tArray[rowName][colName]
>    --    headers are stored in tArray["_row_names_"] and
> tArray["_column_names_"]
>    --       as comma-delim lists
>    -- if withHeaders = false (default) then array is
>    --    tArray[n][i], where n = rowNumber, i = columnNumber
>    -- requires arrayToTabTable()
>    --    which is the inverse function
>
>    if tab is not in pTable then return empty
>    if withHeaders = empty then put false into withHeaders
>    set the itemdelimiter to tab
>    if withHeaders then
>       put line 1 of pTable into colHdrsList
>       delete line 1 of pTable
>       delete char 1 of colHdrsList
>       put (the number of items of colHdrsList) into nbrItems -- for
> debugging
>       repeat for each line tLine in pTable
>          put item 1 of tLine into thisRowHdr
>          put thisRowHdr & comma after rowHdrs
>          delete item 1 of tLine
>          repeat with i = 1 to nbrItems
>             put item i of tLine into tArray[thisRowHdr][item i of
> colHdrsList]
>          end repeat
>       end repeat
>       delete char -1 of rowHdrs
>       put rowHdrs into tArray["_row_names_"]
>       replace tab with comma in colHdrsList
>       put colHdrsList into tArray["_column_names_"]
>    else
>       -- first get the max number of items in the lines
>       -- in case of empty trailing items in some lines
>       put 0 into maxItems
>       repeat for each line tLine in pTable
>          put max(maxItems,the number of items of tLine) into maxItems
>       end repeat
>       repeat with n = 1 to the number of lines of pTable
>          repeat with i = 1 to maxItems
>             put item i of line n of pTable into tArray[n][i]
>          end repeat
>       end repeat
>    end if
>    return tArray
> end tabTableToArray
>
> function arrayToTabTable tArray
>    -- returns a tab-delimited table from a two-dimensional array
>    --    eg, one created by tabTableToArray()
>    -- if the array format is tArray[tRowName][tColName]
>    --    then tArray["_column_names_"] should contain a comma-delim list
>    --       of column names
>    --    and tArray["_row_names_"] should contain a comma-delim list of
> row names
>    -- if these special keys are empty then assumes that the array format is
>    --    tArray[tRowNbr][tColNbr]
>    -- requires tabTableToArray()
>    --    which is the inverse function
>
>    put the keys of tArray into tKeys
>    put the number of lines of tKeys into nbrLines
>    if nbrLines = 0 then return empty -- not an array
>    filter tKeys without "_column_names_"
>    filter tKeys without "_row_names_"
>    put the number of lines of the keys of tArray[line 1 of tKeys] into
> nbrCols
>    if nbrCols = 0 then return empty -- not a 2-dimensional array
>    set the itemdelimiter to tab
>    put tArray["_column_names_"] into colNames
>    if colNames <> empty then
>       -- column headers and row names are stored.
>       -- first row must be column headers, first col must be row names
>       put tArray["_row_names_"] into rowNames
>       replace comma with tab in colNames
>       replace comma with cr in rowNames
>       put tab before colNames
>       put colNames into tTable
>       repeat for each line tRowName in rowNames
>          put tRowName into tableRow
>          repeat for each item tCol in colNames
>             if tCol = empty then next repeat
>             if tCol is not among the lines of the keys of tArray[tRowName]
> \
>                   then next repeat
>             put tArray[tRowName][tCol] into tElement
>             put tab & tElement after tableRow
>          end repeat
>          put cr & tableRow after tTable
>       end repeat
>    else
>       repeat with n = 1 to nbrLines
>          repeat with i = 1 to nbrCols
>             put tArray[n][i] into item i of line n of tTable
>          end repeat
>       end repeat
>    end if
>    return tTable
> end arrayToTabTable
>
> -------
>
> On Jun 13, 2016, at 12:51 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote:
>
> > Sorry, Paul - I suspect I had seen that before, but forgotten it.
> >
> > It was a good idea back then, and still is :-)
> >
> >
> > Though, if we are going to add some form of "with colkeys", I believe
> there should be a version which says that the first line of the input
> contains the column keys; thus you could do
> >
> > Split X indexed using cr and tab with colKeys tColumns      and tColumns
> contains the column keys
> > or simply
> > Split X indexed using cr and tab with colKeys and the first line of X
> contains the column keys (and line 1 is omitted from the results)
> >
> > If no-one tells me that's crazy (and why), I'll go add that to the
> feature request.
> >
> > Alex.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 13/06/2016 14:10, Paul Dupuis wrote:
> >> On 6/13/2016 7:45 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote:
> >>> Perhaps a more general feature requests would be to extend the 'split'
> >>> command, so that it would parse by Primary and Secondary delimiters
> >>> into numerically indexed arrays ?  (using a new optional keyword
> >>> "completely" ... :-)
> >> See http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9950
> >>
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