Combining some lines of text in a list?

2012-01-30 Thread John Patten
Hi All... I have a list of items. The items in the list are in similar groups but each group is delimited by a tab. For example: name:Group1 description:Animals with four legs. creature1:cats creature2:dogs notes1:Animals that are pets. notes2:Animals that have fur. name:Group 2

Re: Combining some lines of text in a list?

2012-01-30 Thread Mike Bonner
Just tried it and ended up with the following. (made a stack with 2 fields, 1 with your sample text, other for output) on mouseUp put field 1 into tVar set the itemdel to colon repeat for each line tLine in tVar switch item 1 of tLine case name put return

Re: Combining some lines of text in a list?

2012-01-30 Thread Michael Kann
put input_file into x replace return creature3 with space in x replace return creature2 with space in x put x into output_file --- On Mon, 1/30/12, John Patten johnpat...@mac.com wrote: From: John Patten johnpat...@mac.com Subject: Combining some lines of text in a list? To: use-livecode

Re: Combining some lines of text in a list?

2012-01-30 Thread Michael Kann
: From: John Patten johnpat...@mac.com Subject: Combining some lines of text in a list? To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Date: Monday, January 30, 2012, 6:45 PM Hi All... I have a list of items. The items in the list are in similar groups but each group is delimited by a tab. For example

Re: Combining some lines of text in a list?

2012-01-30 Thread Mike Bonner
return creature2: with space in x put x into output_file --- On Mon, 1/30/12, Michael Kann mikek...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Michael Kann mikek...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Combining some lines of text in a list? To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Date: Monday, January 30, 2012