On Feb 19, 2010, at 6:57 PM, Glen Bojsza wrote:
I have a field which has hundreds of lines.
For all [ in the field I need to check to see if the character to it's
immediate left is a number.
If it is a number then the [ is to be converted into an _.
If it is not a number then the [ is to be removed (no substitution or
spaces).
I need to be able to cycle through the entire field which each line
may
contain several [.
Any thoughts would be appreciated as I have tried using a
combination of
find characters and foundchunk on the field without success.
assuming that the line cr char does not really matter
solution without RegEx
put fld 1 into originalTextBlock
set the linedel to "["
repeat for each line LNN in originalTextBlock
if word -1 of LNN is a number then
put LNN & "_" after newVersion
else
put LNN after newVersion
end if
end repeat
set the linedel to cr
-- see note below
replace (cr & "_") with (cr & "[") in newVersion
put newVersion into fld 2
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Just in case there is a line ending in a number and the first char of
the next line is '['
and you did not want that specific conversion
change is back to a '[' char
replace (cr & "_") with (cr & "[") in newVersion
Brain dead + RegEx = disaster
I like and use RegEx, but know that you must be fresh to get it right
in less than a fortnight :-)
Jim Ault
Las Vegas
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