Totally OT, but is this Dante, in Spanish?? Just askin’. I am not good with languages, as you can probably tell.
Graham > On 10 May 2017, at 06:33, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > On 5/9/17 11:16 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: >> On 5/9/17 10:41 PM, Nicolas Cueto via use-livecode wrote: >>> Given this snippet... >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------- >>> CANTO XXXIV >>> CÍRCULO IX: TRAIDORES. >>> «Vexilla regis prodeunt[307] del Abismo >>> hacia nosotros[308], mas delante mira >>> 3—dijo el maestro— y los verás tú mismo.» >>> ------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> ... how do I use LC to remove the square-brackets and any string within >>> them, so that the snippet becomes... >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------- >>> CANTO XXXIV >>> CÍRCULO IX: TRAIDORES. >>> «Vexilla regis prodeunt del Abismo >>> hacia nosotros, mas delante mira >>> 3—dijo el maestro— y los verás tú mismo.» >>> ------------------------------------------------------- >> >> This is about the only thing I know how to do with regext. :) >> >> on fix >> put fld 1 into tText >> put "\[.*\]" into tRegEx >> put replacetext(tText,tRegEx,empty) into fld 2 >> end fix >> > > You'd probably want it to be a function though: > > function removeBrackets pString > return replacetext(pString,"\[.*\]",empty) > end removeBrackets > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.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