Jim Ault wrote:
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Another approach would have an advantage or two.
ONE - using a web address like http://website.com would not use the colon as
a delimiter, since the 'split' command only considers the first occurance
TWO - if any glitches occurred that added spurious lines that did not match
an existing field, these would be ignored. (eg. tab, space)
THREE - if your labels have a leading/trailing space this will get cleaned
off
FOUR -- filter rawData without empty
NOTE: I would recommend that you not use "/" in your field label (eg.
Principal/Director) can lead to problems later with scripting.
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repeat
put url ("file:/Path/To/Your/File.txt") into rawData
filter rawData without empty
split rawData using cr and ":"
Jim, you can't do that (at least, not if I interpreted Liam's email
correctly). I'm pretty sure he is saying that the file contains
multiple "entries", each entry consisting of the multiple "fields". If
you had a single entry, then this 'split'-based technique is the one I'd
use - but it can't be used while there are multiple entries .... you'd
finish up with an array element for each field name, containing the data
for the last entry.
You could keep the outer loop from Devin's code, to create tCurrRecord,
and then split tCurrRecord
On 3/8/06 1:56 PM, "Devin Asay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
repeat
put url ("file:/Path/To/Your/File.txt") into rawData
put lineOffset("Name:",rawData) into recStart
if recStart = 0 then exit repeat
put lineOffset("Type:",rawData) into recEnd
put line recStart to recEnd of rawData into tCurrRecord
delete line recStart to recEnd of rawData
replace cr&cr with cr in tCurrRecord -- get rid of empty lines
copy card "template" to this stack --create a new card for the data
go last card
set the itemDelimiter to ":"
repeat for each line tLine in tCurrRecord
put item 2 of tLine into fld (item 1 of tLine)
end repeat
end repeat
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