Table Fields "and all"

Richmond Mathewson richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Thu Jun 29 05:31:45 EDT 2017


One of the reasons you may not be alone is because the documentation
is not much good when it comes to table fields.

I have my suspicions that they have been overlooked; possibly in the mad 
rush towards datagrids.

Richmond.

On 6/29/17 11:13 am, Lagi Pittas via use-livecode wrote:
> I had the same problem when I started using Tables and after I found the
> TAB delimiter "trick" as per Hermann, it was obvious (20/20 Hind sight).
> The Aha! moment came when using commas messed it up by putting them all in
> 1 column with the commas intact. I just assumed everybody  knew  and I was
> a slow learner- nice to know I was not alone
>
> Regards Lagi
>
> On 29 June 2017 at 09:01, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
>> Clever stuff.
>>
>> Thanks an awful lot for what seemed like a knotty problem.
>>
>> Also good because this:
>>
>> settheitemDelimitertotab
>>
>> put"Biscuits" intoitem 3 ofline 7 offld "TF"
>>
>> put"Cheese" intoitem 5 ofline 7 offld "TF"
>>
>> did not delete the "biscuits".
>>
>> Richmond.
>>
>> On 6/29/17 10:54 am, hh via use-livecode wrote:
>>
>>> Richmond wrote:
>>>> I want to put "cheese" into the third column across of the third line
>>>> down of my Table Field "TF"
>>>>
>>> You could try:
>>>
>>> set the itemdelimiter to tab
>>> put "cheese" into item 3 of line 3 of fld "TF"
>>>
>>>
>>>
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