table.POPULATE_FROM_STRING Function
Syntax
V Populate_From_String(C record_format,C record_sep,C record_data)
Arguments
- record_formatCharacter
A (comma) delimited list of field names. The delimiter must match what is used in the data, which is most often a comma.
- record_sepCharacter
The character or expression that separates records in the Data field.
- record_dataCharacter
Data to place into the table.
Description
Populate a table from a string.
Discussion
The <TBL>.POPULATE_FROM_STRING() method populates an existing table from a string variable.
Example
data = <<%a%
tom,23334.56,12/18/52,.t.
fred,23412.345,12/10/72,.f.
%a%
t = table.open("testtable")
t.populate_from_string("name,salary,dob,married", crlf(), data)
t.close()The above example adds two new records to a table called "testtable":
The table, "testtable", is a table with character, numeric, date, and logical fields (shown in the image below.)
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