[score:0; troll] Re: TIB: Extracting data from a string

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From: Owen Cannon <ocannon@oregonvos.net>
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 19:12:09 -0700
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Well, I've figured out a way to make that work, I'll post the source of it
soon... now here's the tricky part, that I've been working on for quite a
long time; how would I change the data from the middle of a string??? I've
thought about deleting part of the string and then part of the

**WAIT!!!**

[inspiration]

actually; using the lengths of strings is the best, so that you don't have
to change an entire list if I move a value out from the middle of the
thing!!! mwa hahahahahahahahahaha
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really, though, thanks for the help, i'll try to send the thing when i'm dne
with it.
-- 
o w e n  c a n n o n
ocannon@oregonvos.net
www.oregonvos.net/~ocannon


> From: "C.J. Wallace" <circax@hotmail.com>
> Reply-To: ti-basic@lists.ticalc.org
> Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 13:11:34 EDT
> To: ti-basic@lists.ticalc.org
> Subject: Re: TIB: Extracting data from a string
> 
> 
> Ok, I only have an 83, but this should go for the 86 as well.  What I would
> do is have set maximum lengths that string data (not the length of the
> entire string, just an entry in the String). To do this, you just test the
> length of the data, and if it fits in whatever size parition you want, then
> just store it to wherever the next parition would start.  Like this:say you
> want a parition length of 5; and the first entry was: "BOB"  The string
> would look like this: "BOB_ _" (_=space).  Then the next entry would be
> "MANDY"  The string would look like this: "BOB_ _MANDY"  And so on, you
> could get something like this: "BOB_ _MANDYDOUG_555554444_333_ _22_ _ _1_ _
> _ _"
> 
> So, all you have to do when when extracting is (provided you've formatted
> your data str to set segments)  All you have to do is know at which parition
> that data is in, multiply that number by the size of the parition, and
> perform a sub( operation, with the length of it as the sizr of the parition:
> sub(BIGSTR,PARITION#*PARITIONSIZE,PARITIONSIZE)  At least, thats how the
> sub( command works on the 83. .. .
> 
> Did you understand?
> 
>> I'm writing an address book program, and have come to the
> conclusion that
>> the only way to manage a large amount of data would be from a big string
>> and
>> a big list. I've made a little program that can extract text from a list,
>> that goes a bit like this [BTW: the stuff enclosed in quotes are comments,
>> they screw up the Ans var but who cares. {this is for the 86}]
>> 
>> "<Sample Info...>"
>> "Hellothisisalargelist" -> BIGSTRING
>> {5,4,2,1,5,4} -> BIGLIST
>> </Sample Info...>"
>> 
>> While dimL BIGLIST > 1
>> BIGLIST(dimL BIGLIST) -> ENDSTR
>> sum BIGLIST+1 -> BEGINSTR
>> sum BIGLIST-1 -> dimL BIGLIST
>> sub(BIGSTRING,BEGINSTR,ENDSTR) -> SHOWstr
>> 
>> "<Show the string>"
>> Disp SHOWstr
>> "</Show the string>"
>> 
>> End
>> 
>> "<Get the very first word>"
>> sub(BIGSTRING,1,BIGLIST(1))-> SHOWstr
>> Disp SHOWstr
>> Return
>> 
>> Okay, this was difficult (for me) but here's the part that stumps me is how
>> to extract like, 1 address book entry from a string and a list. What I've
>> got above extracts data from an entire string, but not just a bit of it.
>> :-(
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> o w e n  c a n n o n
>> owencannon@mac.com
>> http://homepage.mac.com/owencannon
>> 
>> 
> 
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