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Glenn Boyce
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turn commas to tabs

Post by Glenn Boyce » Mon Nov 03, 2008 3:54 am

I've done this before but can't find the syntax. how do I convert a comma delimited variable to tabs?
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Glenn

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Post by Janschenkel » Mon Nov 03, 2008 7:23 am

Warning: "d'oh!"-yelling moment coming up...

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replace comma with tab in theVariable
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Glenn Boyce
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he he he he! oh yeah

Post by Glenn Boyce » Tue Nov 04, 2008 12:50 am

Still couldn't find any reference to it in Help or ref docs

Thnks

Glenn

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Post by Janschenkel » Tue Nov 04, 2008 6:46 am

What were you looking for? I just checked and 'replace' has an entry in the dictionary. There is also a 'convert' command but that has to do with date and time.

No matter how close to English Revolution syntax is, there's the same chicken-and-egg problem as in other languages: you have to knoiw what you're looking for before you can find it, and terminology is essential in that quest. Luckily, with Revolution it's aboiut finding the right verb or noun, rather than which method of which class to use.

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