Most streamlined method to get data

[Skip Kimpel]

So to give you a full sense of the ugliness of the CSV I am working with,
here it is:  (trying to add certain columns but because some columns have
multiple "thousand dollar+ amounts, it throws doing an item count.  Need to
get rid of all dollar signs (easy) and all the commas that are part of a
thousand+ dollar amount)
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,3rd Party,Bakery,Bar,Catering,Delivery,Dine In,Drive Thru,Take
Out,,Vending,Total,

8:00 AM,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$406.43,,$0.00,$406.43,

9:00 AM,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,,$0.00,$0.00,

10:00 AM,$40.74,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$52.41,$0.00,$200.69,,$0.00,$293.84,

11:00
AM,$538.14,$3.29,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$581.30,$0.00,$165.93,,$0.00,"$1,288.66",

12:00
PM,$184.11,$3.29,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$745.68,$0.00,$274.36,,$0.00,"$1,207.44",

1:00
PM,$89.06,$12.87,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$741.65,$0.00,$132.26,,$0.00,$975.84,

2:00
PM,$216.86,$12.47,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$604.86,$0.00,$90.32,,$0.00,$924.51,

3:00 PM,$160.69,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$404.66,$0.00,$37.86,,$0.00,$603.21,

4:00
PM,$68.31,$33.71,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$349.46,$0.00,$323.34,,$0.00,$774.82,

5:00
PM,$286.31,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$625.92,$0.00,$253.94,,$0.00,"$1,166.17",

6:00
PM,$500.66,$36.11,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$790.25,$0.00,$609.95,,$0.00,"$1,936.97",

7:00
PM,$224.81,$26.95,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,"$1,038.03",$0.00,$137.17,,$0.00,"$1,426.96",

8:00 PM,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$55.46,$0.00,$7.10,,$0.00,$62.56,

9:00 PM,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$2.75,$0.00,$0.00,,$0.00,$2.75,

10:00 PM,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,,$0.00,$0.00,

Total,"$2,309.69",$128.69,$0.00,$0.00,$0.00,"$5,992.43",$0.00,"$2,639.35",,$0.00,"$11,070.16",

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On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 1:41 PM Mark Wieder via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> On 7/29/21 9:24 AM, Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode wrote:
> > As grepophile, I'd go for some variation on
>
> While I heartily approve of Ben's use of grep, here's another approach
> using an array. Note that is somewhat specific to your data set, and
> from the looks of the data my guess is that you're heading down the path
> of csv madness.
>
> on mouseUp pMouseBtnNo
>     local tVar, tHeader, tCount, tOriginal
>
>     put field 1 into tVar
>     put line 1 of tVar into tHeader
>     delete line 1 of tVar
>     split tVar by cr
>
>     repeat for each key tKey in tVar
>        # transform "$8,303.32" into "$8303.32"
>        repeat for each trueword tTrueWord in tVar[tKey]
>           put tTrueWord into tOriginal
>           replace comma with empty in tTrueWord
>           replace tOriginal with tTrueWord in tVar[tKey]
>        end repeat
>        # now we can deal with commas as itemDelimiters
>        put 1 into tCount
>        repeat for each item tWord in tVar[tKey]
>           put tWord into tVar[tKey][tCount]
>           add 1 to tCount
>        end repeat
>     end repeat # for each key tKey in tVar
>
>     # now pick out the desired total
>     local tTotal, tOffset
>     put itemoffset("Total", tHeader) into tOffset
>     put tVar[5][tOffset] into tTotal
>     breakpoint
> end mouseUp
>
> --
>   Mark Wieder
>   ahsoftware at gmail.com
>
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