Sorry, Dan, it looks like a typo. This line: > put char tStart to tEnd of tText into tFoundChunk
should read: > put char tStart to tEnd of whatText into tFoundChunk Then everything should work OK. Sorry about that... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 10:45 PM Subject: Search and Replace > Ken, > > Both of these items are correct. But still doesn't exit the repeat. Here's > what I have: > > function replaceGender whatText > local tStart,tEnd > > put "he,him,himself,his,he's,boy,guy" into SearchWordsMale > put "she,her,herself,her,she's,girl,gal" into SearchWordsFemale > set the wholeMatches to true > repeat forever > get > matchChunk(whatText,"[^A-Za-z0-9](boy|h(e|im|is|imself|e's)|guy)[^A-Za-z0-9] > ",tStart,tEnd) > if it is true then > put char tStart to tEnd of tText into tFoundChunk > put (charToNum(toUpper(char 1 of tFoundChunk)) = charToNum(char 1 of > tFoundChunk)) into isUpper > put itemOffset(tFoundChunk,SearchWordsMale) into tItem > if tItem <> 0 then > put item tItem of SearchWordsFemale into temp > if isUpper then put toUpper(char 1 of temp) into char 1 of temp > put temp into char tStart to tEnd of whatText > else > -- you decide... bail? error out? ignore? > end if > else > exit repeat > end if > end repeat > return whatText > end replaceGender > > > > > Dan, > > > > Two things to check: > > > > 1) Check the script to make sure the "local tStart,tEnd" is in there; if it > > isn't, Rev won't actually put anything in tStart or tEnd since they weren't > > "localed". > > > > 2) Check to make sure in the matchchunk it says: > > > > (boy|h(e|im|is|imself|e's)|guy) > > > > between the two [^A-Za-z0-9] and not: > > > > boy|h(e|im|is|imself|e's)|guy > > > > ... without the parentheses around it, there will be nothing to return as a > > match. > > > > Let me know if it still doesn't work... > > > > Don't worry about not getting matchChunk and matchText... I've got a > > mini-tutorial in the works on regEx in Rev/MC that I hope to have released > > as soon as I get another chunk of time to complete it... ;-) > > > > Ken Ray > > Sons of Thunder Software > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution