Brackets within a load script

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I have a record that looks like this:

LOAD * INLINE [

A, B, C

b, m, a;b;c;e;f;g;h;i;j;k;l;m;n

]

;

What I would like to obtain is the following:

A, B, C

b, m, b;c;d;e;f;g;h;i;j;k;l;m

I have expanded the record using SubField(C, ';') and flagged the b and m records and removed the "noise" values (a and n)

Is there a more elegant way to do this? since I have a lot of records.

Thanks,

Antoine

[rwunderlich · Accepted solution]

One approach would be:

LOAD

  A,

  B,

  A & TextBetween(C,A,B) & B as C

INLINE [

A, B, C

b, m, a;b;c;e;f;g;h;i;j;k;l;m;n

];

-Rob

http://masterssummit.com

http://robwunderlich.com

[swuehl]

Sorry, I don't really understand what you are trying to do, or better said, what the requirement is and which logic should be applied.

Using subfield() may be a reasonable way to do what you want, but without knowing what you need, it's hard to say.

Why don't you just post your current script and explain a bit more what you need to do in a more abstract way (how do you determine the noise values, for example? What are fields A, B for? do you need to concatenate the C values again after removing the noise?).

So maybe someone can suggest a more 'elegant' way or at least some alternative implementation.

[Anonymous]

Sorry Stefan if I was unclear.

I will still use subfield at a later step.

I needed to reduce information noise, meaning the values a and n that do not belong to the values between b and m.

I didn't want to post the entire code because I would have to place lots of code and people might not have the patience to read several lines of script. Hence the simplification.

Ultimately
What I am trying to do is create a bracket to perform interval matching.

Thanks for both of you

Antoine