Tab delimited data not working...

[Alain Bois]

Hi
I have miss this problem. I have resolved it with this handler:
function word_new n, ligne
   split ligne by tab
   return ligne[n]
end word_new

I don't know if it is a good solve.

Greets
Alain

Le 26 mars 04, à 14:42, Glen Bojsza a écrit :

> 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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