Isolating and displaying imported file names

[monkey]

Hi All,

I can import a text file and load its content into an array or Datagrid. Yay me.

BUT... How do I isolate the file name and display it in a label field?

So, if the text file was called "my text file" (they're being saved without the ".txt" extension and I really don't see a need to change that), I would want to have "my text file" displayed in a label just above the datagrid that holds all of the file's contents.

All help appreciated!

[monkey]

Alternatively:

Is it possible to put information in the text field before the main array content and filter it off on retrieval?

For example, if my text file was a collection of a student's subjects and grades, could it be saved as:

Name: Random Student
Class: 10QC

Subject [tab] Mock Grade [tab] Challenge Grade [return]
Biology [tab] B [tab] A* [return]
...etc

So... I'd want to take the first two lines and display them on the card above the datagrid which will contain the main information below.

Any thoughts?

Thanks again

[BvG]

To display stuff on a card you should use a field. Then you can use code to put stuff into the field, for example:

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set the itemDelimiter to tab
answer file ""
put it into myPath
put item -1 of myPath into field "filename"

Your second question, as far as I understand it, is about how to put the two first lines of text into one field, and the rest into another field (or a datagrid):

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answer file ""
put url ("file:" & it) into myList
put line 1 to 2 of myList into field "header data"
put line 3 to -1 of myList into field "actual data"

[monkey]

Thanks!