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Data file, is tab-delimited a problem?

Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 6:24 pm
by Josh
Hi all,

I'm setting up an application that will make a long transcript (composed of dozens of individual human participants. I want to delimit the fields with tabs rather than commas for easy quick views in excel. Will this make reading difficult or is there a way to switch comma to tab in the search for item1, item2, etc. Many thanks for any help.

Josh

Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 6:32 pm
by BvG
You can set the itemdelimiter to tab, this will easy your handling of the data.

In fields you can use the tabstops property, to format the entries as you want them to show. If you set the vGrid of a field to true, then text will be truncated, instead of moving the tab to the next tabstop.

Thanks!

Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 6:57 pm
by Josh
I worked with a guy from Zurich a year ago. About the most productive and busiest person I ever met in my life.

Re: Thanks!

Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 7:55 pm
by Klaus
Josh wrote:I worked with a guy from Zurich a year ago. About the most productive and busiest person I ever met in my life.
Aha :-)

Re: Thanks!

Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 2:09 am
by BvG
Josh wrote:I worked with a guy from Zurich a year ago. About the most productive and busiest person I ever met in my life.
clearly not me then...