This is not urgent, and the taf does work, but I am
wondering if there is a more elegant way to accomplish
the task.
We are setting up a web folder with help files. What
we'd like to do is drop a new help file into the folder,
and then have it indexed along with the existing files.
Here is the sequence of steps.
1. Each help file has a title, category and summary that
are preceeded by a special character (I use the ^) and a
double ^ to end the summary. These are standard html
files, with explanations that follow the summary.
2. I have a taf that reads the directory and returns all
the files ending in .htm
3. a for loop that operates on each, placing the file in
a variable.
4. I use <@locate> to find the positions of the ^
character in the string, so I can extract just the
string that includes the title, category and summary,
and then <@calc to calculate the length.
5. I use atomize to turn the returned string into a 3
element array.
6. I use <@addarray> to populate the table of all the
help files, showing the viewer the title (as a hyperlink
to the actual file), category and summary of each of the
help files in the directory.
As I said, the taf works, but when the viewer sees the
actual help file, there are these unsightly ^ characters.
I tried using comment tags to hide them but there was no
way to easily get rid of the comment tag characters when
I built the array. I couldn't seem to find a way to use
atomize with a word instead of a character.
I hope this was clear enough. I learned alot about
arrays and string manipulation in the process. THe main
point of this app is to have people who write the help
files just drop them in the directory, without needing
to update a database.
John Newsom
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