One thing I've done in the past is to prepend new htmltxt with a fake tag, such as "<~~>" and use that as my means to search for, then substring after it.
It's just slow and clumsy. -Jayson > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jayson K Hanes > Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 2:33 PM > To: Flashcoders mailing list > Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] efficient htmltext.reduce() function? > orsimilaridea? > > Say I have this htmltext > > "<font face='verdana'><b>hello world</b></font><br><i>abc123<br>hi again > world<br></i>" > > And it is being appended with other html lines over time, but no two > lines are the same, nor is there a pattern of <br>'s being a common > separator per 'line'. > > I want to be able to execute something like > myHtmlText=myHtmlText.reduce(10); > > And have it become something like: > > "<i>abc123<br>hi again world<br></i>" > > Seeing as that's the lowest amount closest to 10% reduction it could be > trimmed to without breaking the html output when displayed... > > If it was: > > "hi again world<br></i>" > > It wouldn't work as needed.. and would paralyze an htmltext box from > showing anymore text from that point forward. > > Even if just a 50% reduction could be worked out easily.. that'd at > least be functional.. > > Do you see now the dilemma? > > -Jayson > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
