Hi Don,
I also prefer to process stuff from DP by performing merges with
WordPerfect... however I must say that I am moving towards using HTML or
more accurately XHTML, XML, XSLT and CSS. It doesn't require WP to be
installed (is parsed/processed through a browser), and it doesn't require
any expertise (such as using WordPerfect) on the user... XSLT has a
rich set of functions for processing the document, and you can readily
create and use non-flat data structures. You do not need a web server...
just DP and the browser is all that is needed. Its disadvantage is that the
resultant document is not readily editable.
Regards
Brian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Codling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "DataPerfect Users Discussion Group" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 11:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Dataperf] Search and replace in a report
September 1, 2006
FWIW, I do my editing in WP itself (export as a WP merge file, when
finished save as WP 4.2, though I'm not sure the latter is necessary).
Don Codling
WP 12.0.0.602
DP 2.6x
Windows XP home, SP2
512 MBytes RAM
Victor Warner wrote:
Don
Thank you for the information. I think I will follow your suggestion, to
do the editing in Editor.
Victor Warner
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 15:42:13 +0100, Don Friedman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Victor - I believe that you can do it but with some level of difficulty.
If
given a choice I'd always export the data into WPEditor and accomplish
the
search and replace function there. If doing it within DP it would seem
to me
that you have to locate & isolate the string you're looking to replace
and
by virtue of finding it locate the string preceeding it and following
it,
then substring the three components back together replacing the middle
component as needed.
Don
On 8/31/06, Victor Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I would like to know whether it is possible to search and replace in a
report according to the following parameters:
1. Search for a particular combination of characters within a field and
2. then replace those characters only (but leave the other text in the
field untouched).
I know how to do 1. (using the contain function), but cannot work out
how
to do 2.
Is it (easily) possible with DataPerfect?
Victor Warner
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