delimiters have to be single characters, I believe. Not tested but I think the idea failed on me once.
On 28 December 2011 12:00, Peter M. Brigham, MD <pmb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Any reason not to just use > > put numtochar(8) into tempDelim > replace <4-char-sequence> with tempDelim in tString > set the itemdelimiter to tempDelim > > ? > > -- Peter > > Peter M. Brigham > pmb...@gmail.com > http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig > > On Dec 27, 2011, at 5:35 PM, Mark Smith wrote: > > > Thanks, worked perfectly. changing the expression to "(\" & quote & "v" > & "\" > > & quote & ":)" resulted in true, 422, 425 in the output. What I am > > attempting to do is define a rather complicated item delimiter, in this > case > > made up of the 4 char sequence "v": If I can define where this occurs I > can > > break the input up into chunks. > > > > Best, > > > > -- Mark > > > > -- > > View this message in context: > http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/matchChunk-question-tp4238281p4238428.html > > Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > use-livecode mailing list > > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > -- Stephen Barncard San Francisco Ca. USA more about sqb <http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar> _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode