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From: mikef@samba.acs.unc.edu (Michael Freedburg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: put command and spaces
Keywords: put, read from, spaces??
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Date: 26 Nov 90 21:08:09 GMT
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Dear HyperHeads,
I am currently reworking my Mailing Labels stack to fit HyperCard 2.0,
and I find that the put command does something I did not expect, so I
post here hoping that an answer will soon be forthcoming.
I let the user import a tab-delimited file, and I would read from file
theTextFile until tab, and put it into field "Names". Then I would read
from the file again till Tab and put space& it afterr field "Names".
This would put an extra space between the two items. Does it do this
because the last char it read is a Tab and it converts that to a space
when one puts the data after a file. I did the import like this to make
sure that it was placing things correctly. Now I read everything into a
variable, making sure everything is correctly positioned, and then put
the variable into the field.
I do need to know, however, about the put and the spaces. Jeanne, help
me please!! I am still waiting for my HyperTalk 2.0 book to come in, so
bear with me.
I am interested in reading the entire file into a variable and then
doing the put from there using the offset function, but I'm not sure if
this will work. If someone has code to do this, and would not mind
sending me a sample, I would greatly appreciate it.
Send to: mikef@samba.acs.unc.edu
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