How embarrassing !!
I tested this in my message box, and had a typo (almost invisible space)
in the input data.
Sorry Jim (and Keith).
-- Alex.
On 26/05/2011 04:39, Jim Ault wrote:
On May 25, 2011, at 8:41 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote:
Beware this will get the (possibly) wrong result for some data. For
instance, a comma will terminate a word, so
a,b def
will give you a key of "aTABb def"
rather than a key of "a,TABdef"
Punctuation is not considered a word delimiter, so the comma will
remain attached to the string.
put word 1 of "a,b def" into msg
-- I get "a,b" using Rev 3.5
In fact, if the words have trailing commas, the punctuation is
considered part of the word
put word 2 of "He spoke, therefore he was heard"
=> the 6 chars 'spoke,'
put word 2 of "nice ,,and,,,,,,,,,, warm"
=> ,,and,,,,,,,,,,
put word 2 of "really ...-and_,;]/><? truly"
=> ...-and_,;]/><?
Hope this helps
Jim Ault
Las Vegas
On May 25, 2011, at 8:41 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote:
Beware this will get the (possibly) wrong result for some data. For
instance, a comma will terminate a word, so
a,b def
will give you a key of "aTABb def"
rather than a key of "a,TABdef"
I'd stick to the safer
set the itemDel to space
repeat for each line L in tData
put item 1 of L & TAB & item 2 to -1 of L & CR after tOutput
end repeat
or ... since they are key/value pairs, if (AND ONLY IF) you happen to
know that the keys are unique
split tData by CR and space
combine tData by CR and TAB
-- Alex.
On 25/05/2011 16:14, Keith Clarke wrote:
Thanks to Roger, Ken and Chris for playing - but Jim gets the prize
for the simplicity brought through passing data out to a second
variable, line by line, rather than trying to fix the data in place
(which is an interesting mental challenge but quite convoluted).
So, I settled on this four line fix variant on Jim's first solution
(I found that had to declare the line explicitly for each word chunk)
repeat for each line tLine in tSourceList
put word 1 of tLine& tab& word 2 to -1 of tLine& return
after tResultTable
end repeat
filter tResultTable without empty
So, I now have a nice, clean label-value table field.
Nice that variables are 10 a penny in LiveCode! :-)
Best,
Keith..
Jim Ault
Las Vegas
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