Splitting a Line of Text on Spaces
You can create an array by dividing on a set character. In this example I split on spaces per the request of the writer.
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;I assume each line in the file is this 9 field data format:
;"title 1 some text title 2 other text 567034"
;start at the top (assuming whole file)
^!Jump Doc_Start
;set list delimiter to space and get array elements
^!SetListDelimiter " "
:Loop
;get the row we are in
^!Set %row%="^$GetRow$"
;select the current line where cursor resides
;this will select the entire line from prior
;line feed to this one
^!Select Paragraph
;delimited array set by splitting line on spaces
^!SetArray %delimited_data%=^$GetSelection$
^!Set %indx%=1
:Loop_Display
;display each array element
^!Info Row is: ^%row% ^PElement ^%indx% is ^%delimited_data^%indx%%
;check if we have used all elements in current row
;compare current index number to number of elements
;in the array using delimited_data0 - which stores
;the number of elements in an array
^!If ^%indx% = ^%delimited_data0% Next_Line
^!Inc %indx%
^!Goto Loop_Display
;move to next line and then continue
:Next_Line
;go to next line
^!Jump Select_End
;loop again if there are more rows
^!If ^%row% = ^$GetLinecount$ END ELSE Loop
Significant points in this clip:
1. use of the ^!SetArray command to divide on a preset delimiter (in this case a space)
2. use of the special 0 element in the array to determine how many elements are in the array
3. use of the line: “^!If ^%row% = ^$GetLinecount$ END ELSE Loop” to test if we are at the end of our file
testing if you are at the end of a file is a common necessity in notetab clips.