tab separated data

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vanfanel
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tab separated data

Post by vanfanel » Thu Dec 01, 2005 11:12 pm

Is it possible to parse out tab separated data using Separate command?

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Post by Me_again » Fri Dec 02, 2005 12:49 am

I don't have any data to test it on but try:

VBSTART
VBEND
VBEval>vbTab,tab

then use %tab% as the delimiter in the Separate>

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Post by Marcus Tettmar » Fri Dec 02, 2005 7:05 am

TAB is already a system variable (added in 7.4). So just do:

Separate>string,TAB,fields
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