Thanks, that's the kind of tip I was looking for.
John
> Do you store the index in a database?
> If so you could have your people place the file in the folder with an
> extension like .idx. then your taf only needs to work with these files
>
> Read them in and extract the ^...^^ data into the database and then
> remove them for the file and store the index information in the database
> with the new file reference with an new extension like .vew
>
> Just a thought
>
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> 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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