I threw a quick one together, because little problems like this always intrigue me. :)
New stack, made two fields and a button, and put the source CSV list in the first. Button script as: on mouseUp put "" into o put fld 1 into x repeat with a = 1 to the number of lines in x put line a of x into xx set itemdel to quote repeat with b = 1 to the number of items in xx if trunc(b/2) = (b/2) then replace comma with numtochar(2) in item b of xx end repeat set itemdel to comma repeat with b = 1 to the number of items in xx get item b of xx replace numtochar(2) with comma in it put it & return after o end repeat put "--------------------" & return after o end repeat put o into fld 2 end mouseUp As long as quoted items don't have return charters in them, this should work. If that IS a possibility, it would get a tad more complicated. ~ Chris Innanen ~ Nonsanity On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Paul Dupuis <p...@researchware.com> wrote: > So I am tired of reinventing the proverbial wheel over and over again. > > I have a new project that I want to read a CSV file for. Obviously reading > the file is easy. And is it was tab separated instead of comma, parsing out > the rows and columns is easy as well. However, with comma seperated data > where some columns contain string with commas in then that are encapsulated > in quotes, just plowing through the itemDelimiter and lineDelimter doesn't > work. > > So before I bother to write code to handle encapsulated CSV data, I thought > I'd ask if anyone on the use-list has existing code to handle CSV's that > they'd be willing to share. > > -- > Paul Dupuis > Cofounder > Researchware, Inc. > http://www.researchware.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode