Not had a chance to confirm your findings below, Alex, but if so then your assessment is most likely correct.
Well found, that man! When (if) I get some time, I'm thinking a generic method would be useful to delete arbitrary columns from a data set. Meanwhile, I have submitted an enhancement request (along with a Combine by Column bug in LC7DP10, #13297). Hugh Senior FLCo Alex Tweedly <a...@tweedly.net> wrote... > Because (I imagine) "combine ... column" requires that the keys be > consecutive numbers. > > This does work (deleting column 2, just for testing, and omitting the > safety check that there are at least 3 columns :-) > > on mouseUp > set the columndelimiter to comma > get fld 1 > put it into tVar > split tVar by column > put the number of lines in the keys of tVar into N > repeat with i = 3 to N > put tVar[i] into tVar[i-1] > end repeat > delete local tVar[N] > -- delete local tVar[2] > combine tvar by column > put tvar after msg > end mouseUp > > -- Alex. > > On 29/08/2014 10:33, FlexibleLearning.com wrote: > > Related problem to 'join columns': How to delete a column of data? > > > > This fails... > > > > on mouseUp > > get fld 1 > > split it by column > > delete local it[2] > > combine it by column > > put it into fld 2 > > end mouseUp > > > > It seems that 'combine by column' requires the same number of array keys > as > > the original data set. > > > > Hugh Senior > > FLCo > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 26 > Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 20:21:28 +0300 > From: Richmond <richmondmathew...@gmail.com> > To: "USE >> How to use LiveCode" <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> > Subject: Simulcast > Message-ID: <5400b698.2090...@gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed > > Can anyone tell what "direct to video" means? > > In the Simulcast e-mail there are 2 links to the 2 tracks [i.e. 4 links]; > the second and the fourth marked as "direct to video". > > I wonder how those differ from the offerings at the first and third links? > > Richmond. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > ------------------------------ > > End of use-livecode Digest, Vol 131, Issue 52 > ********************************************* _______________________________________________ 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
