On 11/6/99 10:22 pm Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> item 1 of field 1 by "/"
>> item 1 of field 1 delimited by "/"
>
>I wonder is really all we need is a custom function, something like this
>(but with a shorter name):
>
> GetUnit( <data>, <itemNumber> [,<delimiter>])
>
> PutUnit( <data>, <itemNumber>, <value> [,<delimiter>])
>
>That's how I wound up kludging my way through my last project, but it
>worked well enough. I'd prefer it in the language, but this may get us
>through the day. Can you think of any downsides to using this approach
>which I might have missed?
Argh...shudder! I'll refrain from saying too much about what I think of
the elegance of using a function here ;-) But from a functional point of
view it doesn't work either - you may want to do more with items than
simply get and set them, for example placing text before or after them.
Regards,
Kevin
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