That is what I thought but once again thank yu for the info and the clarification. It helps a lot!
John Balgenorth On Aug 28, 2014, at 12:17 PM, Phil Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > Before doing the 'split', you could set the columnDelimiter to whatever char > is used as the item delimiter. In other words, you aren't limited to tabs as > your column delimiter. > > Phil > > > On 8/28/14, 12:10 PM, Phil Davis 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 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> use-livecode mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >>> subscription preferences: >>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >>> >> > > -- > Phil Davis > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
