My point was to be careful of using (wordOffset + replace) because
put wordOffset("happy", textBlockOfLines) into wordPosition
replace word wordPosition of textBlockOfLines with "sad"
can give undesired results such as-----
feel happy and safe
feel sad and safe -- OK
It is good to feel happy, yet afraid
It is good to feel sad yet afraid -- no comma
Feel happy. Be careful.
Feel sad Be careful. -- no period
Punctuation is one of the unintended casualties of wordOffset.
Jim Ault
Las Vegas
On Apr 10, 2010, at 1:34 PM, Peter Brigham MD wrote:
Right, "replace" is the thing to use for a global replace task, but
if you are doing a more sophisticated search/replace -- checking
context of various matches and narrowing the search further -- the
multiple offsets function is quite useful. Also, I need on occasion
to find the *last* occurrence of a string in a container, and "item
-1 of offsets(tString,tContainer)" is great for this.
-- Peter
Peter M. Brigham
On Apr 10, 2010, at 2:51 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote:
Peter,
As David pointed out, you can do that easily with the replace
command. I thought I'll mention this to avoid confusion.
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Op 10 apr 2010, om 20:28 heeft Peter Brigham MD het volgende
geschreven:
The code above will find and replace the first occurrence of the
string. For access to all the occurrences, use this handler:
function offsets str,cntr
-- returns a comma-delimited list
-- of all the offsets of str in cntr
if str is not in cntr then return 0
put "" into offsetList
put 0 into startPoint
repeat
put offset(str,cntr,startPoint) into thisOffset
if thisOffset = 0 then exit repeat
add thisOffset to startPoint
put startPoint & comma after offsetList
end repeat
delete last char of offsetList
return offsetList
end offsets
-- Peter
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