Brian Dunning's FileMaker Custom Functions

GetProperty ( propertyList ; propertyName ; separator )

Extract a property's value from a property list with a separator

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  Sample input:
GetProperty("height=200|width=6|color=red" ; “width” ; “|”)
  Sample output:
6

  Function definition: (Copy & paste into FileMaker's Edit Custom Function window)

Extracts a single property's value from a seperated list of properties, by property name.

This function can be used to easily pass multiple named parameters into a script.

 

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