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Thanks for both responses. Yes Adrian the first one would clear it as you suggest. I can't remember now why I was doing it the way i was doing. Like I said I am just playing so was trying different things. Thanks to you both.. Adrian and Sturgis. I think the empty would be a more elegant and descrip...

I have been playing with fields by putting lines of text into a field. Because I am using 'put <variable A> into line 1 of field 3' in one statement and later I use 'put <variable B> into last line of field 3' that subsequent runs of the program don't clear field 3 but just append. Okay an understan...

Hi Bernd, Thanks for the code. It was something I had in mind as what I would do (not as elegant of course and much longer for a newbie to do). I notice you have a series of saving current defaults for delimiter and folder and then replacing them with my files folder and path delimiters. Are you doi...

I did see that function. The issue is that is for parsing an entire directory of files. I already have my file.. I guess I can build a kind of work around to get the detail of a specific file. Let me play with the function. Suggestion: you should index every word in the dictionary. if you search for...

Hi, I am parsing a text file and I have managed to figure out how to open the text file read its contents and dump to a text field. From that I will parse the contents to Grid field and one of the columns of the grid will be the files creation date. I have searched and found that you can read a dire...

Thanks. Looks like I will have to get out the checkbook.

Hi, I am new to LiveCode and really I have not done programming in 15 years (even though that is what my degree is in). I work for a company where main development is done in Germany but there are certain features that our customer base here in the USA needs or wants. I have two in mind but one big ...