Re: lingo-l replace string question

2005-05-24 Thread Buzz Kettles
At 12:44 AM +0200 5/24/05, you wrote: besides, is there any chance MM will have unix/osx-style paths implemented in director in the future? if you mean using / as the delimiter, that support was put in during d6 -Buzz gr+tnx arri ---8--- On 23 mei 2005, at 22:51, Daniel Nelson wrote:

Re: lingo-l replace string question

2005-05-24 Thread arjen
ok... so me and my big mouth should have looked into the documentation better (as usual) before posting here.. On 24 mei 2005, at 17:47, Buzz Kettles wrote: if you mean using / as the delimiter, that support was put in during d6 -Buzz [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to

lingo-l replace string question

2005-05-23 Thread arjen
hi this must be so easy, but i can't find the answer anywhere; howto replace all occurences of a character in a string with another character? the time i wasted with searching i could have also spent with making a handler that does that, but there must be a much faster way of doing it than

Re: lingo-l replace string question

2005-05-23 Thread Irv Kalb
Below is a generic Search and Replace routine that I have been using for years. It allows for any length string using the containsand offset commands. I believe that this is faster than going character by character. But the real question is why do you have hard coded path names in your

Re: lingo-l replace string question

2005-05-23 Thread julian weaver
here's a version I wrote for mac - just add your prefixes for windows on replacePathForUnix me, trackpath replaceDelim = / if the environment.platform contains Macintosh then myPrefix = /Volumes/ findDelim = : else --// windows myprefix = findDelim = \ end if

Re: lingo-l replace string question

2005-05-23 Thread arjen
thanks for you responses, in the meanwhile i wrote a handler myself, just to not waste time searching. but i posted the question becuase i asumed there must be much more efficient way to do it, rather than creating repeatloops and walk through all paths. this can become very time/cpu

Re: lingo-l replace string question

2005-05-23 Thread Daniel Nelson
Check out the free PregEx extra. Search and replace made easy and processor friendly. Regards, Daniel arjen wrote: thanks for you responses, in the meanwhile i wrote a handler myself, just to not waste time searching. but i posted the question becuase i asumed there must be much more

RE: lingo-l replace string question

2005-05-23 Thread Thomas Higgins
but i posted the question becuase i asumed there must be much more efficient way to do it In addition to PregEx if you're in DMX'04 you could create a JavaScript syntax regular expression object and do all this a bit faster and cleaner. Cheers, Tom Higgins - Technical Product Manager

Re: lingo-l replace string question

2005-05-23 Thread arjen
hmmm, yes i'm aware of the need to get more java-/actionscript capable... i'm using it for some other things that are much more complicated to do in lingo, but i don't master it yet..and i currently don't really have the time to get it in my fingers.. anyway, thanks for the tips. i'll have a