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

[Mike Doub]

There is a function in the masterlibrary that extracts columns.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3wpwn3hfbmpl7sk/MasterLibrary.livecode?dl=0

-= Mike 

  Original Message  
From: dochawk at gmail.com
Sent: September 28, 2016 8:14 PM
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Subject: Re: How to extract specific columns/line items from a CSV file?

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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