How to extract specific columns/line items from a CSV file?

Dr. Hawkins dochawk at gmail.com
Wed Sep 28 20:14:33 EDT 2016


On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 1:16 PM, Keith Clarke <keith.clarke at me.com> wrote:

> I’ve a large number of sizeable CSV files from each of which I need to
> extract just 2 or 3 specific columns. Creating nested iterations through
> every item in every line seems somewhat inefficient - as does loading each
> full file into memory - so I feel I must be missing a trick here.


I'm late to the party, but if it's a one-off, open in a spreadsheet, select
 what you want, and paste into a field in livecode.



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