Re: unstring with Tab delimiter

[Nathan Treadway <nathant@ONTKO.COM>]

> I'm trying to unstring data that uses Tab as it's delimiter.  (The data
> originally came from Excel so I don't have much choice about the
> delimiter).  I can't seem to figure out the exact syntax to put a tab in
> the delimiter with the unstring command.  I've tried actually typing a tab
> between quotes and without quotes.  I've also tried [Tab] and {Tab} both

You can use either "encode" or "chr" to put a tab into a variable, and then
use the variable in the unstring.

That is, say
  encode '<9>' into $tab
or
  let $tab = chr(9)

and then say
  unstring $line by $tab into $col1 $col2 $col3
or whatever.


                                                Nathan
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