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why won't second item appear from this code for text string :

"new task--new source,new task--new source"



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3 Series (E21)

that throws an error - I tried this but still no second value


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Unitarian-universalism forum

It works with a single "-" as the delimiter, but not with the doubled ones "--" .

Parsing loops only parse one delimiting character at a time, so "--" is not a valid parsing delimiter in the way you want it to work. It's parsing data for "-" once then parsing it again for "-", so with that in mind you should be getting a blank result for source since A_LoopField will contain no data on runs two and four(there's nothing between the 1st and 2nd "-" and the 3rd and 4th "-").

Change data to this:



It will work fine.

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Accepted solution -Thanks also to sinkfaze
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Lm004

Not to belabor things but I think it's worth noting that using the array number determined by StringSplit(Field0) to run the loop only worked correctly by coincidence in this example. If we were to have stuck with your original string 'data':



The loop would've continued to return an incorrect answer since Field0 equals 2 and the number of substrings the parsing loop should've found was 3:

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