yes, string handling is pretty good - but I'm surprised that Rev has no built-in support for CSV files. They are a pretty common interchange format, but handling the variations commonly found makes it non-trivial to do this properly - quoted fields, delimiter in quoted fields, escaped or doubled quotes within a field, etc.
Has anyone written and contributed a library to avoid others having to "roll-your-own" ?
FWIW, almost all tools that produce CSV files can also do tab delimited, which is much easier to deal with.
Heck, why anyone does anything other than picking a row and column delimiter and replacing them with escape codes if necessary in the actual data is beyond me.
Perhaps there's a good CSV-to-tab-delimited converter out there =).
Given tab-delimited data it's real easy to do lots of things:
set the itemDelimiter to tab
repeat for each line l in someData put item 1 of l into field1 put item 2 of l into field2 replace "\r" with return into field2 replace "\t" with tab in field2 ... end repeat
...
put line 42 of someData into record42
...
sort lines of someData by item 3 of each
...
split someData using return and tab put someData[115] into recordID115
etc...
- Brian
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