put lines 2 to 5 of fld "Choice" into fld "te

ac11ca · Post by **ac11ca** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 7:39 am

Hay there,

Obviously, my code is not working. Could someone please tell me how to copy a selection of lines of data from one field into another?

Cheers,
Ac

Tim · Post by **Tim** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 11:27 am

Use line rather than lines

put line 2 to 5 of field "foo" into field "bar"

bn · Post by bn » Tue Jan 20, 2009 11:31 am

Hi Ac,

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put line 2 to 3 of field 1 into field 2

works for me. What happened? Did your code compile? If you wrote "put lines 2 to 3 of field ... then it should not compile because of lines instead of line
regards
bernd

ac11ca · Post by **ac11ca** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 5:18 am

Thanks guys, I was mis-typing "line" as a plural.

Cheers,
Ac

FourthWorld · Post by **FourthWorld** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 4:45 pm

This raises an interesting question: given that Transcript aims to mirror English whenever practical, and that "lines" in that context is arguably more syntactically correct than "line", should "lines" be allowed when referring to multiples?

Klaus · Post by **Klaus** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 4:56 pm

Hi Richard,

on the other hand is "...lines 2 to 3..." really correct english?

I doubt! Translated into german it is definitvely not!

Best

Klaus

maverickalex · Post by **maverickalex** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 10:04 pm

if it was just line 2 and 3 that is gramatically correct in English.
For multiple it would be Lines 2 - 4.

Alex