[EmData] Using characters within field as separator

[stephen_ball]

Hi Emma / Joe,

Using:
«set itemdelimiter to “.”¶
«trim(item 1 of field1)»    «trim(item 1 of field2)»¶
Will work for what I need as I now have an identifier for separation
within the fields.

Many thanks.
Stephen.

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Mathia - Em Support [mailto:support at emsoftware.com] 
Sent: 31 July 2008 15:57
To: Emma Glaisher; stephen_ball at eu.shr2shr.com;
data-users at emsoftware.com
Subject: Re: [EmData] Using characters within field as separator


Hi Emma,

Hmm, I took my data example from his first email, where he did have two
comma-delimited fields.

But, I could be wrong!

Stephen, could you lease clarify?


Regards,

Joe Mathia
Em Software Support / support at emsoftware.com / www.emsoftware.com
(+1) 740 284 1010, fax (+1) 740 284 1210




On 7/31/08 9:49 AM, "Emma Glaisher" <emma.glaisher at fourninety.com>
wrote:


No, Joe, I don’t think so.

It looks as if Stephen is using the word ‘field’ where we would use
‘record’.

Each record contains 5 ‘fields’, 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 “.”¶
«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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