Re: text into a tabstopped field

2006-08-22 Thread Rob Cozens
Robert, Richard, Mark, et al: Seriously though, this should be corrected. I am reminded that in Foxpro a plus + can add two numbers AND concatenate 2 strings. Try if x is a number then... Disambiguation then becomes a simple matter of if both x and y are numbers then add them, otherwise

Re: text into a tabstopped field

2006-08-21 Thread Robert Sneidar
Ah hah!! Just as I expected! There IS ambiguity in Transcript... err Revolution!!! ;-) Seriously though, this should be corrected. I am reminded that in Foxpro a plus + can add two numbers AND concatenate 2 strings. How is this the same you ask? Because in both cases the same thing turns

Re: text into a tabstopped field

2006-08-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
Robert Sneidar wrote: Ah hah!! Just as I expected! There IS ambiguity in Transcript... err Revolution!!! ;-) Seriously though, this should be corrected. I am reminded that in Foxpro a plus + can add two numbers AND concatenate 2 strings. How is this the same you ask? Because in both

Re: text into a tabstopped field

2006-08-21 Thread Mark Wieder
Robert- Monday, August 21, 2006, 9:22:19 AM, you wrote: Seriously though, this should be corrected. I am reminded that in Foxpro a plus + can add two numbers AND concatenate 2 strings. How is this the same you ask? Because in both cases the same thing turns out to mean different things based

Re: text into a tabstopped field

2006-08-20 Thread Jim Ault
On 8/19/06 6:52 PM, Mark Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: set the itemDelimiter to tab put someInfo into item 2 of line n of fld someField On the other hand, if you're making many updates at once and the field contains a lot of data, it might be more efficient to put the field into a

Re: text into a tabstopped field

2006-08-20 Thread Mark Smith
On 20 Aug 2006, at 09:19, Jim Ault wrote: Major Caveat! the item in Rev does not always mean what you may think it should. The number of items in a,b,c,d,e,f,g is 7 The number of items in a,b,c,d,e,f, is 6 The number of items in a,b,c,d,e,, is 6 The number of items in a,, is 6 It is the

Re: text into a tabstopped field

2006-08-20 Thread Dar Scott
On Aug 20, 2006, at 4:21 AM, Mark Smith wrote: The number of items in a,b,c,d,e,f,g is 7 The number of items in a,b,c,d,e,f, is 6 The number of items in a,b,c,d,e,, is 6 The number of items in a,, is 6 It is the same with cr's (lines) The trailing comma is not counted as delimiting an

text into a tabstopped field

2006-08-19 Thread Mark MacKenzie
Hello. I need to put a DB query result into a RunRev stack field which has tabstops at 62,123,282,467,606,822,911. I don't wish to just put the query result into the field as this overwrites all current information in that field. I just want to update portions of this field. For example I

Re: text into a tabstopped field

2006-08-19 Thread Mark Smith
set the itemDelimiter to tab put someInfo into item 2 of line n of fld someField On the other hand, if you're making many updates at once and the field contains a lot of data, it might be more efficient to put the field into a variable, update the variable and then put the variable back