Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED],
On 01-Dec-99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> At 10:47 AM 12/1/99 -0500, you wrote:
>>
>>
>> Please elaborate on this for process
>> to handle standard comma delimited files (or tab delimited files)...
>
> set [ x1 x2 x3 ... ] parse record ","
>
> This presupposes that there are no commas contained in the fields. If you
> may encounter fields that will include commas, were commas are not field
> delimiters, usually I'd expect they occur in quoted strings:
>
> "field-with-comma, something", "another field"
>
> and the parse will be a little more complicated.
-snip-
not really:
## db: {name1,test1,"name,with,comma",test2,name3,test3}
== {name1,test1,"name,with,comma",test2,name3,test3}
## parse db none
== ["name1" "test1" "name,with,comma" "test2" "name3" "test3"]
Best regards
Thomas Jensen