[EmData] Using characters within field as separator

[Emma Glaisher]

No, Joe, I don¹t think so.

It looks as if Stephen is using the word Œfield¹ where we would use
Œrecord¹.

Each record contains 5 Œfields¹, separated by the bullet character. Field 1
is Czech, field 2 is Slovak, field 3 is Polish, field 4 is Hungarian, field
5 is Turkish.

Stephen wants the Czech words together ­ i.e. field 1 of each record, then
the Slovak words ­ i.e. field 2 of each record.

That is why I thought he would need to use an array. Depending on how many
records there are, of course. From his original mail I think there are only
9, in which case why use XData at all?

How about 5 different prototypes, just changing the field number each time?

Emma



on 31.07.2008 15:41, Joe Mathia - Em Support at support at emsoftware.com
wrote:

> Hi Stephen and Emma,
> 
> From what I understand, the data looks something like this (this is 3 records,
> each containing 2 fields):
> 
> bavlna . bavlna  . bawe<\#U0142>na . pamut . pamuk,nylon woven . nylon wav .
> nylon wen  . nylon vew . naylon wev
> bavlna1 . bavlna1  . bawe<\#U0142>na1 . pamut1 . pamuk1,nylon1woven .
> nylon1wav . nylon1 wen . nylon1 vew . naylon1 wev
> bavlna2 . bavlna2  . bawe<\#U0142>na2 . pamut2 . pamuk2,nylon woven2 . nylon
> wav2 . nylon2 wen  . nylon2 vew . naylon2 wev
> 
> If this is the case, a simple prototype like this will do the trick:
> 
> «fields field1,field2¶
> «set itemdelimiter to ³.²¶
> «trim(item 1 of field1)»    «trim(item 1 of field2)»¶
> «trim(item 2 of field1)»    «trim(item 2 of field2)»¶
> «trim(item 3 of field1)»    «trim(item 3 of field2)»¶
> «trim(item 4 of field1)»    «trim(item 4 of field2)»¶
> «trim(item 5 of field1)»    «trim(item 5 of field2)»¶
> ¶
> 
> Have a look at the attached ‹ do an import from pasteboard.  Its a QX7 doc.
> Let me know if you need it in InDesign.
> 
> Does this help?
> 
> Regards,
> 


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