You are right. Thank you! What happened is the variables were all listed right in my code for the searching and replacing and then I put the wrong variable into the field I wanted to change.
thanks again. John Balgenorth On Aug 24, 2014, at 3:07 PM, Peter Haworth <p...@lcsql.com> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 1:43 PM, JB <sund...@pacifier.com> wrote: > >> I still can’t get it to work for some reason. And the >> first regex one ends up leaving me the letters that >> I wanted to delete instead of leaving the other part. >> > > Strange. They both work fine here. Maybe the variables are the wrong way > round? tString1 is the one containing the string to be searched and > tString2 is the string to be searched for ("ABC" in your example) > > Pete > lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> > Home of lcStackBrowser <http://www.lcsql.com/lcstackbrowser.html> and > SQLiteAdmin <http://www.lcsql.com/sqliteadmin.html> > _______________________________________________ > 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