delim

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Description

Return chosen column from delimited text

Arguments and Return Values

Arguments: a text object, a deliminator and a count

Return Value: a text object containing a specified column of the input

Usage

Syntax: delim(object = TEXT, delim = STRING, count = INT)

Delim() returns collumn count as defined by delimiter delim from object. The collumn is returned as a TEXT object with the same number of rows as object.

Examples

dv> a
Text Buffer with 5 lines of text
    1: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
    2: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
    3: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
    4: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
    5: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10

dv> b = delim(a,",",4)
Text Buffer with 5 lines of text
    1: 4
    2: 4
    3: 4
    4: 4
    5: 4

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Modified On: 03-23-2006

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