Hi Glen,

well, the chunk "word n" is giving you the nth word of the string;
so, it's right but using item will work as you ask for !

set the itemdelimiter to tab
put item  3 of line 1 of fld "data"
-- 23   tab     35      tab     76      tab     55      tab     99 
-- gives  ==> 76

put item  3 of line 1 of fld "data"
-- 23   tab     tab     tab     76      tab     55      tab     99
-- gives  ==> empty

put item  5 of line 1 of fld "data"
-- 23   tab     tab     tab     76      tab     55      tab     99
-- gives  ==> 55

HTH

regards, thierry

  | I have a field which is filled with tab delimited data there will 
  | always be some "missing data" by the nature of the type of data being 
  | collect.
  | 
  | I have set the itemDelimiter to tab but that does not solve the 
  | problem??
  | 
  | Example below I've "typed" the word tab to help explain
  | 
  | 23  tab     35      tab     76      tab     55      tab     99      
  |     -- put word 3 of line 1 of fld "data" 
  |     ==> 76
  | 23  tab     tab     tab     76      tab     55      tab     99      
  |     -- put word 3 of line 1 of fld "data" 
  |     ==> 55  (shouldn't it give 76 ??)
  | 
  | Is this a bug, limitation, or a bad assumption?
  | 
  | thanks, Glen
  |

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