So many ways to skin a cat. Thanks Gérard

Al

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From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Gérard

Lochon

Sent: 13 April 2014 08:29

To: profoxtech@leafe.com

Subject: Re: Bad getwordnum

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From: "Allen" <profox@gatwicksoftware.com>

> I just spotted a nasty. GetWordNum. If you have say aa ="A,B,C,,,F" and

ask

> for GetWordNum(aa,4,",") it gets it wrong. Seems it cannot handle blanks.

A

> pain as I just had some.

Instead of using Getwordnum, split the string in an array using

ALINES(yourarray,yourstring,3,',')

You can then access to each word, even if it's a null string.

Gérard.

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