Imagine the following scenario:
A text file containing lines of text a bit like this:
Mary Smith 12 Windsor Gardens Slough 45 housewife
now getting those lines into a Table Field is going to involve messing
around with 'quote' amongst all the "dicing and slicing".
I think I'll be a "right plonker" and give that to my programming pupils
tomorrow afternoon.
If you never hear from me again start looking for a gravestone in
Bulgaria with a Table Field on it!
Richmond.
On 6/29/17 10:45 am, Richmond Mathewson wrote:
I want to put "cheese" into the third column across of the third line
down of my Table Field "TF"
put "cheese" into column 3 of line 3 of fld "TF" did not work,
put "cheese" into item 3 of line 3 of fld "TF"
put "cheese" into the first column preceded by two commas (default
itemDelimiters).
put tab & tab &"cheese" into line 3 of fld "TF"
"worked" insofar as it put "cheese" into column 3, but it also deleted
other data in columns 1 and 2 . . .
That use of 'tab' seems clunky in the extreme . . .
And, things are "not much good" if on entering data it deletes other
data elsewhere.
I found something very helpful for getting an Array into a Table Field
[
http://lessons.livecode.com/m/4071/l/7810-how-do-i-display-an-array-in-a-table-field
]
but that didn't really help me.
put "Biscuits" & "cheese" into line 3 of fld "TF" gave me
"Biscuitscheese" in the first column
'obviously'
put "Biscuits" & tab & "cheese" into line 3 of fld "TF"
did separate the biscuits from the cheese.
This is "a right pox" as, presumably, if one imports a comma delimited
data file from outside Livecode one has to
go through a "pretty glorious" rigmarole getting all the stuff into
the right slots.
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Of course the easy answer to my post is to do a knee-jerk "datagrid"
or a "wait for datagrid 2" response,
but not all of us really want the high learning and coding overhead
that the datagrid involves, especially when
we might be dealing with a simple 10 x 10 table of data.
Richmond.
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