Not sure I understand, Ken. Your first statement puts searchString
in the fifth column, while the second puts it in the fourth. If I
changed mine to
filter theData with "*" & tab & searchString & tab & "*"
or
filter theData with "*" & tab & searchString & "*"
it would still find the string in the second column, but perhaps in
higher columns too because the pattern can be shifted right.
Greg
On 9-Dec-05, at 7:42 PM, Ken Ray wrote:
On 12/9/05 4:19 PM, "Gregory Lypny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Hello everyone,
I use the filter command on tab-delimited text files when I want to
pick off a string in a particular column. For example, if the string
is located in the second column of a five column file, I use
filter theData with "*" & tab & searchString & tab & "*" & tab & "*"
& tab & "*" .
This, I assume, ensures that my hits don't include lines where the
string appears in any other column. It works like lightening when I
search in any of the first four columns, but beyond that I get the
dreaded spinning beach ball in Mac OS X (Tiger). Is there a
better way?
Yes, the problem (I think) is that you probably have the "*" after
the last
column - I just worked with this today, and ran into the same
problem. If
you remove the last asterisk you should be fine:
"*" & tab & "*" & tab & "*" & tab & "*" & tab & searchString
whereas for column 4 it would be:
"*" & tab & "*" & tab & "*" & tab & searchString & tab & "*"
Hope this helps,
Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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