The why has been covered.. no "column" delimiter, and the fact that.. if it were to actually work, putting item 1 of your sample data into item 1 of the field should put the item separated by the specified item delimiter.. so there would be no change. (unless as above you use 2 delimiters
Meaning if you did this.. put "1^2^3^4" into tdata set the itemdel to "^" repeat with i = 1 to the number of items in tdata put item i of tdata into item i of tdata end repeat put tdata You get out exactly what you put in. 1^2^3^4 Its interesting to me that the itemdel can't be changed on the fly to do this.. Well, it will but you have to have 2 separate containers because the number of items fluctuates based on chosen delimiter as things are processed. The following works.. put "1^2^3^4" into tdata set the itemdel to "^" repeat with i = 1 to the number of items in tdata put item i of tdata into tTempitem set the itemdel to tab put tTempitem into item i of tdata2 -- separate container, separate item counts set the itemdel to "^" end repeat put tdata2 But it still begs the question why one wouldn't just-- replace "^" with tab in field "whatever" On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 2:43 PM, Bob Sneidar <bobsnei...@iotecdigital.com> wrote: > Oh crap yeah I don't think a field has a "column" property. Boy it would > be nice if it did! > > Bob S > > > On Nov 3, 2016, at 13:14 , Randy Hengst <iowahen...@mac.com<mailto:iow > ahen...@mac.com>> wrote: > > put item 1 of PREE1 into column 1 of line 1 of fld "fTF" > end mouseUp > > line 1 if fld "fPRE" contains this "2^45^9^1113" > > I wonder why this throws a "bluey": > > button "Button": compilation error at line 4 (Handler: bad command) near > "1", char 30 > > OR . . . to put things another way: How does one refer to columns in a > tableField? > > Richmond. > > _______________________________________________ > 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
