Hi Don,
I am glad that there are still some WP aficionados out there... I am still
a member of a group called the Association of WordPerfect Professionals
which meets once a month and has a yearly conference... it only has a
handful of members but we all had to pass the old WordPerfect certification
exams as a precondition of membership and there was only a handful of people
actually did that anyway. We have been meeting for 15 years...
By the way, the technique for web enabling DataPerfect also works for
WordPerfect for DOS, for web based document automation. Using Perl control I
take data from a webpage, pass it to and process it in DataPerfect,
exporting a Secondary merge file and then under macro control print it to a
.PS file, and then use PS2PDF to create a PDF file and deliver it across the
web or email it... The multiuser is a little harder, as you have to use
the WordPerfect SET files . I am hoping to work out a business application
to breathe new life into WP.
Bye
Brian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Codling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "DataPerfect Users Discussion Group" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2006 8:25 AM
Subject: Re: [Dataperf] Search and replace in a report
September 1, 2006
Since I have WP open about 95% of the time my computer is turned on, and
do more than half of my computer work in WP, your reasons for using HTML
etc don't work for me. Further, I find WP easy to work with, and can get
it to do just about anything I want in manipulating text.
But that's one of the freedoms of the computer. Different people do
different things in ways that work best for them. For me to do much in the
web based structures will mean learning a whole new system - it may not
happen until I retire ...
Don Codling
WP 12.0.0.602
DP 2.6x
Windows XP home, SP2
512 MBytes RAM
Brian Hancock wrote:
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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