Re: tabs as delimiters
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2004
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 59581
interpreted = N
texte = Thanks again, but using %1D gets me right back where I started with the pipe char: empty values collapse. The tab=t parameter is for making empty values valid when reading tab-delimited text, but as we can see, you can't pull a tab out of a DB field. I'm going to have to do something different. Shouldn't be hard, but I don't see why SMSI couldn't make tabs=T apply to whatever delimiter you happen to be using either. Thanks, Terry Ken wrote: >Thanks Ken. Yes, now that you point this out, it's perfectly clear. >Of course I know you can't put tabs in field - why didn't I see >that? I wonder why they use the tabs=t in the first place for >listwords? Probably because listwords isn't always used on database field values, sometimes it is used on text that actually has tabs in it. But I have never used the optional tabs=t parameter myself so I don't really know what it's there for ... >Now I see what's happening. The stored value is correct, but with >another character in place of tabs. Inspecting my database in BBedit >I find the tab char is now replaced with /0x1D whatever that is. So now you can use [listfields delimiters=%1D&words=[yourwordshere]] and it should work fine, assuming the rest of your code is okay. -- >On Oct 8, 2004, at 11:40 AM, Terry Wilson wrote: > >> When you use a tab as a delimiter in a string so you can split it >>apart later via listwords, with blank entries intact: >> ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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Thanks again, but using %1D gets me right back where I started with the pipe char: empty values collapse. The tab=t parameter is for making empty values valid when reading tab-delimited text, but as we can see, you can't pull a tab out of a DB field. I'm going to have to do something different. Shouldn't be hard, but I don't see why SMSI couldn't make tabs=T apply to whatever delimiter you happen to be using either. Thanks, Terry Ken wrote: >Thanks Ken. Yes, now that you point this out, it's perfectly clear. >Of course I know you can't put tabs in field - why didn't I see >that? I wonder why they use the tabs=t in the first place for >listwords? Probably because listwords isn't always used on database field values, sometimes it is used on text that actually has tabs in it. But I have never used the optional tabs=t parameter myself so I don't really know what it's there for ... >Now I see what's happening. The stored value is correct, but with >another character in place of tabs. Inspecting my database in BBedit >I find the tab char is now replaced with /0x1D whatever that is. So now you can use [listfields delimiters=%1D&words=[yourwordshere]] and it should work fine, assuming the rest of your code is okay. -- >On Oct 8, 2004, at 11:40 AM, Terry Wilson wrote: > >> When you use a tab as a delimiter in a string so you can split it >>apart later via listwords, with blank entries intact: >> ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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