if member(2) = your field, you can get the value line by line ...
x = value(member(2).line[1])
put x
-- [#property: "avalue", #property: 5, #property: "anothervalue"]
put ilk(x)
-- #propList
hth
-Buzz
At 4:24 PM +0000 5/13/02, you wrote:
>Hi there,
>
>I'm importing text from the web via getnettext to a field, the text comes
>already formatted as property lists (or so I thought) it comes like this:
>
>[#property:"avalue", #property:5, #property:"anothervalue"]
>[#property:"avalue", #property:5, #property:"anothervalue"]
>[#property:"avalue", #property:5, #property:"anothervalue"]
>
>etc...
>
>if I place the content of the field on a list
>
>on startmovie
>
>gData = []
>
>gData = member("dataBin").text
>
>end
>
>the value of gData is a string
>
>if I do value(gData)
>
>gData = "[#property" (only the first bit within quotes)
>
>if I turn gData to a list with textToList() with the itemdelimiter as RETURN
>I get a linear list of strings
>
>gData= ["[#property:"avalue", #property:5, #property:"anothervalue"]"
>"[#property:"avalue", #property:5, #property:"anothervalue"]"
>"[#property:"avalue", #property:5, #property:"anothervalue"]"]
>
>
>
>and if I try con convert those to lists with value() it happens as before..
>
>I've tried with searchAndReplace() also but I don't seem to get it to work.
>
>
>is there an easy way around it??
>
>
>thank you.
>
>Gonzalo.
>
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