Set the itemDelimiter to tab
put the number of items in AddListContents into tItemNum split AddListContents by tab
--must split after determine number of items, not before repeat with j = 1 to tItemNum
put AddListContents[j] into line j of field "Results"
end repeatI get the result I was looking for.
Is this the best way to do it?
Is there any way to do it by capturing the data directly into the array rather than reading it into AddListContents and then extracting it from there?
M
On Jul 7, 2004, at 10:30 PM, Marian Petrides wrote:
I am having trouble displaying text read from a file.
I have two fields per card, one for name, one for address. I write the contents of these six fields (2 per card) to a file, separated by a comma thusly:
Open file "AddressList.txt" for write Repeat with j = 1 to the number of cards
go to cd j
--if simply use repeat for the number of cards, will start save on whatever is current card
write field "WhatName" to file "AddressList.txt"
write tab to file "AddressList.txt"
write field "WhatAddress" to file "AddressList.txt"
write tab to file "AddressList.txt"
go next cd end Repeat
Close file "AddressList.txt"
No problem.
I can open the file and read from it thusly:
Open file "AddressList.txt" for read
Read from file "AddressList.txt" until EOF Put it into AddListContents Close file "AddressList.txt"
Again no problem
I can even split AddListContents by tab
No problem. And I can even display the resultant items line by line in a field without a problem so long as I specify a fixed number of iterations for the repeat loop:
repeat with j = 1 to 6 put AddListContents[j] into line j of field "Results" end repeat
I have two questions:
1) What I would like to be able to do is:
Figure out a more general way to specify number of iterations for the repeat (something like: repeat with j = 1 to the number of words in file "AddressList.txt"
How do I do this?
2) In a similar vein, is there a way to break the data up into items as it is being read. I think I can probably use "read from file until tab"
What I can't figure out is how to set up a loop that will read from the file until a tab is encountered, put the data into AddListContents[j] then go on and read the next item.
Again, I think the stumbling block is the syntax which will tell the loop to repeat until it reaches the end of the file. Eg,
Repeat with j = 1 to <what do I put here> read from file until tab <how do I tell it I want to read from the last tab until the next tab> end repeat
TIA.
M
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