variable for import field number loop

[Nancy Palmquist]

Scott Nelson wrote:
> Is there a way to use a variable to count through the field numbers on 
> an import?  Such as
> 
> :import new = importfile r=\n f=;
> 
> :x(2,.0)="1"
> 
> :aa=new(x); gosub dothis; etc
> 
> 
> There are hundreds of fields in each line and I would prefer not to do:
> 
> if: x eq "1"
> then: aa=new(1)
> 
> and so on.
> 
> 
> Scott
> 
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> 
Scott,

Change the logic a bit and read the entire record into one big variable by 
changing r=; to r=\n

Then just parse thru the data by looking for ; to see where each field starts 
and stops.

A bit more annoying but something that can be looped.

Nancy

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