Tab delimited data not working...

[Thierry Arbellot]

I think you should use item instead of word
words are delimited by space, items by the itemDelimiter

-> put item 3 of line 1 of fld "data"

Thierry.

On Friday, Mar 26, 2004, at 14:42 Europe/Paris, Glen Bojsza wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a field which is filled with tab delimited data there will 
> always be some "missing data" by the nature of the type of data being 
> collect.
>
> I may have made an assumption ...
>
> If word 2 is missing in a line of 5 words then when I ask for word 3 I 
> actually get word 4. The line shifts the words to the left.
>
> Does Revolution not count the tabs when it is counting the words? If I 
> read a file into a spreadsheet and tell it the data is tab delimited 
> it counts the words properly.
>
> I have set the itemDelimiter to tab but that does not solve the 
> problem??
>
> Example below I've "typed" the word tab to help explain
>
> 23	tab	35	tab	76	tab	55	tab 	99 		-- put word 3 of line 1 of fld 
> "data"    ==> 76
>
>
>
>
> 23	tab	tab	tab	76	tab	55	tab 	99		-- put word 3 of line 1 of fld 
> "data"    ==> 55  (shouldn't it give 76 ??)
>
>
> Is this a bug, limitation, or a bad assumption?
>
> thanks,
>
> Glen
>
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