That the split and combines are useless is completely wrong. I use them all the
time and it's a huge timesaver for manipulating x,y matrices. Of course, for
the given Task, they do not work for what you want directly. You'll need to
change the orientation first, for example thusly:
on mouseUp
--assuming the example colour and food data from below
put field 1 into theData
split theData by column
repeat with theKey = 1 to the number of lines in the keys of theData
replace return with tab in theData[theKey]
end repeat
combine theData by return
split theData by return and tab
put the keys of theData --all done
end mouseUp
Of course a single line solution for switching the orientation of tables would
be most handily, because this is really arcane. I'm sure there's other ways
that are faster, especially when you only use "repeat for each line in theData"
in combination with "put after <endResult>", but you asked about combine and
split ;)
Bjoernke
On 9 Apr 2010, at 17:13, Bob Sneidar wrote:
> Just had a few rounds with split and combine, and they are not what you think
> they are. Split takes the first value in a delimited line and that becomes
> the key. The rest of the items become the elements. The commands are fairly
> useless for much of anything.
>
> Bob
>
>
> On Apr 9, 2010, at 12:07 AM, Josh Mellicker wrote:
>
>> Given a variable like this, where the first line is "headers":
>>
>> name [tab] color [tab] food
>> Trevor [tab] green [tab] salad
>> Sarah [tab] blue [tab] pizza
>> Richard [tab] orange [tab] burgers
>> David [tab] purple [tab] fruit
>>
>> What is the best way to turn this into an array, where the array keys are
>> the first line of the variable?
>>
>> I have tried various forms of "split by" ""split using" and ""split with"
>> but haven't found the right formula. Personally I find the documentation on
>> the various forms of the "split" and "combine" commands a bit scant.
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