[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> function ExtractItems tabl,col
> put "" into a
> repeat with x = 1 to the number of lines in tabl
> set cursor to busy
> put (item col of line x of tabl) into line x of a
> end repeat
> return a
> end ExtractItems
>
> one liner would be
>
> put extractitems(mytable,2) into nucontainer
>
> (sorry for the humor!)
That may be as good as it gets (using arrays rather than chunks of course).
I've been playing with the new split and combine commands for 2.4, but I
can't figure out of there's a syntax to extract a single column to combine
into a string....
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Media Corporation
Multimedia Design and Development for Mac, Windows, UNIX, and the Web
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