Need help with tokenat()

I have 2 layouts, one layout has multiple buttons so when you click each one, it stored the loopindex of the clicked button in a global variable.

Now on the 2 layout, I have multiple text files with datas separated by "|". Each text filename is in this format "file_1", "file_2", "file_3", etc.

So what I am trying to accomplish is when the 2 layout loads, then tokenat should load corresponding file datas.

tokenat("file_"&"clickedID"&".Text", loopindex, "|")

The above does not work. Any ideas?

Thanks

It looks like you're using an expression like tokenat("file_1.Text", 0, "|"). This looks wrong because it only makes sense to use tokenat if the string actually has the separater character in it. "file_1.Text" has no "|" characters in it, so it won't do anything useful.

I would guess you intended to load the contents of the file, not pass the name of the file.

I'm not clear what you're doing now, your original example used a string of the filename but your reply suggests you're not doing that now. If you are successfully loading the first file, then I guess just do that for a different file for the next layout?

tokenat isn't really suitable for large amounts of data, I'd advise using a more structured data format like JSON.

First you need to request the file "file_"&"clickedID"&".Text" with AJAX.

When AJAX request is completed, then you need to use tokenat() to parse the data from the file. So your code should look like this:

First you need to request the file "file_"&"clickedID"&".Text" with AJAX.

When AJAX request is completed, then you need to use tokenat() to parse the data from the file. So your code should look like this:

That is it, thanks for that and bravo