> On 08/03/2010 19:44, Gregory Lypny wrote: > > I'm creating an app that imports comma-delimited tables. A few lines might look like this, where there are 14 items per line. > > "Mon, Jan 18 , 2010",9:14 AM,130557,4319,Trade,Buy,X,135,8.25,10,-82.5,1417.5,20,10 > "Mon, Jan 18 , 2010",9:14 AM,130558,4371,Accept,Your ASK,X,135,8.25,10,82.5,1582.5,0,10 > > My problem is that Rev treats each date in quotes as three > items rather than one. I convert the comma delimiters to tab by > setting the itemDelimiter to comma and then running the lines > through nested repeat-for-each loops as > > repeat for each line thisLine in dataTable > repeat for each item thisItem in thisLine > put thisItem& tab after newLine > end repeat > -- more stuff here > end repeat > > I end up with > > "Mon (as the first item) > Jan 18 (as the second) > 2010" (as the third) > > Any suggestions as how I might get the date treated as one item?
Add an inQuotes flag, with an initial value of false. For each item, if it has a quote in it, toggle the inQuotes flag. Then, if inQuotes is set, append a comma instead of a tab, to put the item back together again. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paul mailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
