As ever Edward - many thanks for you help - I'm off to try this now. IH
On Thursday, September 1, 2016 at 11:41:14 PM UTC+1, Edward K. Ream wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 5:40 AM, Israel Hands <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > it seems to be easier to read the file line by line than it is to read the >> body text of a node line by line >> > > lines = g.splitLines(p.b) > > will split > the body text into lines, preserving trailing newlines. > > and similarly it seems easier to write to a file line by line than it is >> to write to the body text of a node line by line. >> > > p.b = ''.join(lines) > > will write the lines given above back to the body text. > > Note that '' is two single quotes. > > > Because g.splitLines preserves newlines, p.b will remain unchanged unless > you change one of the lines in the meantime. > > HTH. > > Edward > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
