Plaintext will not remove characters, which is what he wants. What he REALLY wants is something to remove ann non-printing characters from a chunk. I cannot help but believe there is a regex way to do this.
Bob On Feb 18, 2014, at 10:04 AM, Devin Asay <devin_a...@byu.edu> wrote: > Skip, > > Have you looked at the plaintext property of fields? I think it converts > non-convertible characters to a '?' It might be a tool you could use. > > Devin > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Feb 17, 2014, at 2:20 PM, "Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel" >> <s...@magicgate.com> wrote: >> >> Thank you! This should give me something to go on. >> >> >> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Richmond <richmondmathew...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> On 17/02/14 22:15, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel wrote: >>> >>>> Is there a way to scan a field for "extra" characters or non-English >>>> characters? I am trying to create a verification process for some >>>> imported >>>> text and get rid of these characters in one swoop. >>>> >>>> Any guidance here would be greatly appreciated.... as always! >>>> >>>> Thanks again, >>>> >>>> SKIP >>> Have a play around with my stack available here: http://forums.runrev.com/ >>> viewtopic.php?f=5&t=18869 >>> >>> Richmond. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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
