tokenat seems to be putting a carriage return at the start?

I'm splitting a .txt file into an array using tokenat.

However, when I go to check if part of it equals, for example "<NP>" it wont show it as being so.

Eventually I've figured a carriage return is being added to the front of the string when it is split.

Why does this happen and can I make it go stop now??

Are you sure the carriage returns are at fault? I haven't been able to replicate the issue, even using files with Windows style line endings. It might help if you post your capx and txt files.

Are you taking into account that it is zero based?

Okay, tokenat isn't adding the carriage returns, they were just in my text file.

When I made my text file just one long line, the project worked! But it's a pain (though not impossible) to work on an instructions file that's one massive long line.

Is there any way to remove carriage returns from a text? I've looked before and construct doesn't seem to have anything equivalent to 'chr' that other programs do. So I don't know how to point at carriage returns to make construct remove them (not even sure of the removal command either)

Okay, I have a work around by just trimming the first character of every line (that's where the carriage return ends up after tokenat takes it's sample). I have to have one carriage return at the start of the text document for this to not erase the first character of the first line. And I have to add the '<END>---' at the end manually, because putting it in manually adds a carriage return and I have no other way of doing that currently. Before I had the program add that.

Still would like a way of removing all carriage returns, if it's out there.

You should be able to use tokenat with the CR (newline), and then again for the data you want.

How do I get tokenat to aim itself at a carriage return? Something like tokenat(string,X,newline)?

Besides, what would it do for me in changing the original data?

Yes, use 'newline'. This gets you each line, then you can break that line into tokens with your original separator.

Okay, I'll try that next time. Thanks, blackhornet