I haven't changed Rev's delimiter programatically. The values in the lines of the field are delimited by commas. Just now as I looped through, having selected Texas to be g_reg, I put this:
put item 17 of regLine & "," & g_reg & the itemDelimiter And the output is: Texas,Texas, Thank you so much for your very very fast reply! Richard Gaskin wrote: > > stevex64 wrote: > >> I have a very irritating problem occurring. In one part of my program a >> global variable, g_region, is set to the name of a US state or Canadian >> province. Later in the program there is a loop that compares the 17th >> element of the line to g_region. If g_region and element 17 of the line >> are >> the same, the program does something. Using the variable watcher, I can >> see >> that g_region is set to a states name, and I can see that the 17th >> element >> of the line is the same state as g_region. But the loop doesn't >> acknowledge >> that the two are equivalent. I have tried : >> >> "repeat for each line regLine in lData >> if item 17 of regLine = g_reg then //and I've tried "is" in place of >> the >> equals sign, too. >> put item 17 of regLine into regFiltered >> end if >> end repeat" >> >> lData is just lines from a field being dropped into a variable. I tested >> lData with "put the number of lines in lData", and it shows the correct >> number of lines that I know are in that field. >> >> In the very next line I test g_region with "put g_region", and it puts >> the >> correct g_region value. >> >> But if item 17 of regLine is, say, Texas and g_region is Texas, the loop >> doesn't see them as being equivalent for some reason. >> >> Any thoughts? > > What is the itemDelimiter set to while this is running, and does it > match the character used to delimit the values in regLine? > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World > Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com > Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-Text-variable-problem-tp23690520p23690569.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
