TheColumnDelimiter

Type

expression

Summary

Fetches the columnDelimiter property from script context

Syntax

the column delimiter

Description

Fetches the calling (script) handler's columnDelimiter property, or horizontal tab (U+0009) if no script context is available.

Examples

   -- Split a string into a list using the column delimiter
   variable tItems
   put "alice\tbob\teve" into tItems
   split tItems by the column delimiter
   -- tItems is now a list: ["alice", "bob", "eve"]

Related

expression: TheRowDelimiter, TheItemDelimiter, TheLineDelimiter