join columns

[JB]

Hi Phil,

Thank you so many times!!!

It does work.  I was thinking i needed to add more to it
and never tried it like it was.

This is my first time with arrays.  So I was looking around
for infö and in the process came up with a good lesson on
arrays.

http://revolution.byu.edu/arrays/introToArrays.php

Thanks again!

John Balgenorth

On Aug 28, 2014, at 3:43 PM, Phil Davis <revdev at pdslabs.net> wrote:

> Hi John,
> 
> It should work if you just say "combine pData by column" and nothing more. At least it does here - just tested it. It restructures the pData array back into its original list format, but with items moved to their new positions.
> 
> Phil
> 
> 
> On 8/28/14, 2:27 PM, JB wrote:
>> Hi Phil,
>> 
>> I am having trouble with the proper way
>> to write the combine pData by column.
>> 
>> I can split the columns and reverse them
>> like you show but how do you write the
>> code to combine them?  It looks to me
>> from the dictionary the column needs
>> to be a number but what line do I need
>> to put them on?
>> 
>> John Balgenorth
>> 
>> 
>> On Aug 28, 2014, at 12:10 PM, Phil Davis <revdev at pdslabs.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> If pData is a CR-delimited list where each line contains tab-delimited items, why not use 'split by column'?
>>> 
>>> -- example: switch positions of columns 2 and 4
>>> 
>>>   split pData by column
>>>   put pData[4] into tTemp2
>>>   put pData[2] into pData[4]
>>>   put tTemp2 into pData[2]
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -- then put it back together as a list:
>>> 
>>>   combine pData by column
>>> 
>>> That should do it.
>>> 
>>> Phil Davis
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 8/28/14, 11:54 AM, JB wrote:
>>>> Richard Gaskin wrote a function to get a column
>>>> from a list.
>>>> 
>>>> function GetCol pData, pCol --Richard Gaskin
>>>>     set the itemdel to tab
>>>>     put empty into tReturnList
>>>>     repeat for each line tLine in pData
>>>>         put item pCol of tLine &cr after tReturnList
>>>>     end repeat
>>>>     delete last char of tReturnList -- trailing CR
>>>>     return tReturnList
>>>> end GetCol
>>>> 
>>>> Does anyone know how to convert this so you can
>>>> join the selected columns back together in any
>>>> order you want?
>>>> 
>>>> John Balgenorth
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