True... forgot about the "read only" issue. Given that I have about 150,000 rows of data to process I am going to need to create some type of progress bar or counter. Using the "repeat for each xxx" method, how would I obtain the current line position?
Thanks, SKIP On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 2:41 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