You can use Replace$ to search and remove the "\t" character in your string.
I am not so fluent in Gambas, but the good old VB6 does support "" (null string) as replacement, so I suppose that Gambas also do this. Just put your "a_line" there and search for any "\t", replace with "" (null string)... Your text will get cleared ... Other point of mention: It will may be better to split also the "a_line" on the TAB char and thus receive "semi"-two dimensional array containing your values. Then you can start (re-)creating / displaying your data properly. kind regards Emil P.S. Are you physician? -----Ursprungliche Nachricht----- Von: richard terry [mailto:rte...@pacific.net.au] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 6. Mai 2009 15:02 An: mailing list for gambas users; Ian Haywood Betreff: [Gambas-user] help with some simple parsing See the attached file for the data. Unfortunately I'm brain dead when it comes to simple logic. In one of my hl7 messages in the Free Text segment under an actual pathology result, there is a list of sequential bood test results representing previous results of the same type - , separated by tabs which I need to display properly. as I've re-constructed the result as html, the tabs simply disappear in the result, so I've been looking for a solution, and to start I thought maybe I could split this up into lines and then later put it into a table embedded in the html to keep it aligned. Perhaps there is a simple way out, but this is what I've done so far. So I started with this: 1) Split this into lines Dim bits as string[] dim a_line as string bits = split(the_text_in_the_file,"<BR>,"", TRUE) for each a_line in bits print a_line next Problem with this is that the \t (I presume tab character) gets in the way, and it dosn't split properly with the results of the bits[] as shown in the picture. Interestingly an occasional letter is lost off the test names. Any help appreciated. richard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
