On Jan 7, 2012, at 4:06 PM, Mark Smith wrote: > > Peter M. Brigham, MD wrote > >> Any reason not to just use >> >> put numtochar(8) into tempDelim >> replace <4-char-sequence> with tempDelim in tString >> set the itemdelimiter to tempDelim > > Thanks Peter, none that I can see although I would probably write: > > put quote & "v" & quote & ":" into tempDelim -- i.e. a 4 char delimiter with > embedded quotes > replace tempDelim with tab in tString > set the itemdelimiter to tab > > Same idea though and much easier than fussing with replacetext and regular > expressions. I probably didn't think this would work because of the embedded > quotes.
Same idea. I replace <whatever-char-sequence> with a character that would not be found in any text string. Your version will work as long as there are no tabs already in your text. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
