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lcmark, thank you for that snippet of info. That is really exciting. I look forward to smaller file size, thus quicker loading and control of the pop up keyboard, which has been a bug bear from the very beginning. Maybe I will keep my html5 subscription.
Cheers
Greg

It has been over 5 years since I commented on this post about the speed and function of Livecode HTML on mobile devices.

I am about to update a series of programs that I developed back then. Many people do use these programs on their mobile devices even though they are advised that the programs are ...

Sorry for the slow reply, I have been using the program to update the database. It is all working pretty nicely … as I look for glitches.

After a day of data input (needed to be done), I ran a version with your script -hh. Beautiful. It gathers all the entries that are close to the name in the ...

Thanks Craig and Hermann for the suggestions. Always great to get other perspectives.

I had tried the “is in” code in the script in an earlier version, and it sort of works. The problem came about when there was a student in the database lastName “Good”. However on the Attendance sheet (that is ...

Thank you for your thoughts. Does this mean that wildcards can’t be used with Offset?

This is the script that I am currently using. It does the job - mostly - but does miss variations of some names. I think the script is clunky and thought there would be a more elegant way of looking for as many ...

Hi All

Perhaps a simple question, but can you use wildcards with an Offset?

I want to search for variations of a word.

For example: offset(charsToFind, stringToSearch)
charsToFind - Good-Smith
stringToSearch - a database of last names

I am searching each line of client data line by line looking ...

Thanks jameshale, that did the trick.

Processing 177,631 items was completed in 28 seconds. Nice. I can live with that. :-)

I ended up changing the itemdelimiter to “~”, as OpenOffice needed the itemdelimiter to be nominated each time the resulting exported .csv file was opened (not sure why, as ...

Thanks bogs for the timer. It greatly aided my sanity today :-)

I had a mixed bag of times from this morning to this afternoon? But definitely with smaller numbers of items, times were reasonable. Large numbers of items (160,000) had ridiculous times.

Thanks jameshale for your insight. That makes ...

The above script is faster with small amounts of data, but dramatically slows down as the number of items increase.

10,000 items - 1 second (Speeds were timed with a stopwatch so are only a guide.)
20,000 items - 2 seconds
40,000 items - 4 seconds
80,000 items - 14 seconds
160,000 items - 50 ...

Interesting how writing it down and seeing the information in another format can help!!

I have answered my own question!

repeat for tStudentNumbers
add 1 to tCounter
put tCounter * 15 into tNextSet -- item 15 of the next student
put item tNextSet of tDataBaseHold into tSecond
replace return ...

Hi All
I have been exploring AxWald’s approach to removing returns in an item and am having success at removing the returns from imported data, adding data to this item, then replacing the returns on export - to be opened in OpenOffice (then Joomla).

I know that item 15 in the import has returns ...

:-(
I have been trying to apply Alex Tweedly’s script but am struggling to understand how I use it. I haven’t required a custom function before so have been reading and exploring how they are constructed.

Unfortunately I can’t work out how to call this script or what ‘defaults’ the script is ...

Thank you so much AxWald for your very clear explanation. Much appreciated.

That was the problem. I am in Australia, so there are many commas running wild here. I have decided to use OpenOffice, as it provides more control over what csv’s will look like when saved. I’ve abandoned Excel, as it was ...

Thank you all for your replies. I have been wandering around in this 'swamp of sorrow' :-) for some time now!

I will continue to see if I can get out, but I need some more assistance, before I go under :-(

AxWald, I liked your approach, but couldn't get your script to work. Am I missing something ...

Hi Everyone

A question regarding a .csv file. I have a spreadsheet with a number of single word columns. One column however is a ‘Notes’ column with text and returns.

In Excel, the ‘Notes’ data is displayed and contained within the column. When this is imported into LiveCode each return creates a ...