Yes. I’m into short cryptic responses today. The loop shouldn’t be repaired with ‘repeat i = 1 to the number of lines of…; because that is slow for large files, not only in selecting lines but in deleting them. Use ‘for each L’ and ‘put L after…’.
I think some changes in LiveCode make the loop variables not exactly constant, but a good style would be to treat them that way. They are not chunk references. Unless I missed something. Dar On Jun 3, 2014, at 12:41 PM, Klaus major-k <kl...@major-k.de> wrote: > Hi all, > > Am 03.06.2014 um 20:36 schrieb Dar Scott <d...@swcp.com>: > >> I recommend building a new string rather than deleting lines. > > and that is even mandatory, because "repeat for each xxx" is "read-only"! :-) > >> On Jun 3, 2014, at 8:35 AM, Charles E Buchwald <char...@buchwald.ca> wrote: >> >>> Good Morning Skip, >>> How about: >>> >>> put fld "super large blob of text" into tFieldText >>> repeat for each line n in tFieldText >>> if item 9 of n is empty OR item 15 of n > 0 then delete n >>> end repeat >>> >>> ... not tested. But it seems like maybe you have something else in mind? >>> >>> - Charles >>> >>> On 03 Jun 2014, at 9:02 AM, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel >>> <s...@magicgate.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Good morning coders, >>>> >>>> I have a very, very large field that contains some text from a tab >>>> delimited dataset. Row 1 contains the headers. Here is my dilemma... I >>>> need to filter out lines where item 9=EMPTY or item 15 is greater than 0. >>>> >>>> Any help or guidance? >>>> >>>> Thank you! >>>> >>>> SKIP > > Best > > Klaus > > -- > Klaus Major > http://www.major-k.de > kl...@major-k.de > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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