On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:58 AM, Peter Haworth <p...@lcsql.com> wrote:
> > a=1,b=2,c=3 > > That's pretty basic and is easily handled by: replace comma with cr Then just work through the lines and the itemDelimiter to =. What I was thinking about was: "A","B","C","D" etc and being able to specify the chunkDelimiter as "," Of course this too could be handled by: replace quote & comma & quote with cr, but you are left with a leading and trailing ". The more real world example is how LC currently defines words. As far as I can tell, using regex syntax, I think LC uses [ \f\n\r\t]+ For those unfamiliar with regex that deciphers to any whitespace chars (carriage return, line feeds, tabs, etc) can appear together as many times as possible, but at least once. That's why LC will correctly count the words in this example, but if the delimter was changed to space, as has been suggested, you'll get seven: put "one two three four" into tStore --simulate a word being delimited by space set the itemDelimiter to space --item is now equivalent to word put the number of items of tStore A current limitation with itemDelimiter, regardless to what it is set, but lets go with the default comma one , two , three,four If I refer to any of these items, only the 4th will not include white space, all others, and therefore in all my handlers, if I don't want to include the whitespace, then I have: word 1 to -1 of item x of ... Not hard, but it would certainly save a enormous amount of file preprep if I could: set the chunkDelimiter to "[space comma quote]+" --one or more of "one "," two "," three","four" put chunk 2 would result in 'two' without any whitespace around it. And chunk 1 would be 'one', no leading quote and no trailing space. Having now thought about it a bit, one BIG GOTCHA I see is if multi character chunkDelimiter was implemented then it could behave just like LC words do, and by that I mean you can NOT have an empty word, unlike items which you can. 1","2","3"," ",, ,,," "," "7"," ","," --using same chunkDelim as above Is only 4 chucks with no empty chunks between 3 and 7 and no trailing empty chunks after 7. one two three seven -- lots of trailing tabs and spaces put empty into word 2 one three seven put "two" into word 2 one two seven _______________________________________________ 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