On 5/6/05 5:57 AM, "Allen Stare" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> To my question: I am importing text files created in notepad on Windows. I'm
> using the readFile command with an instance of the FileIO Xtra in 8.5 to
> read the contents of the files. When I place the imported text in a field on
> the stage, the paragraph characters are showing up as boxes.
Hi Allen,
On Windows, new parargraphs are indicated by two characters: Carriage RETURN
+ Line Feed. In Lingo, that would be written as
numToChar(13)&numToChar(10). Director originated on Macintosh, so
internally, only RETURN characters are used.
The simplest solution to your problem would be to use the ReplaceAll()
handler (below) to replace all Line Feed characters with EMPTY:
tContents = <read in data from NotePad file>
tContents = ReplaceAll(tContents, numToChar(10), "")
Does this help?
James
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
on ReplaceAll(aString, aSubString, aReplacement) ---------------------
-- INPUT: <aString> is the main string to search in
-- <aSubString> is a string which may appear in <aString>
-- <aReplacement> is a string which is to replace all
-- occurrences of <aSubString> in <aString>
-- OUTPUT: returns an updated version of <aString> where all
-- occurrences of <aSubString> have been replaced by
-- <aReplacement>
--------------------------------------------------------------------
if aSubString = "" then
return aString
end if
tTreatedString = ""
tLengthAdjust = the number of chars of aSubString - 1
repeat while TRUE
tOffset = offset(aSubString, aString)
if tOffset then
if tOffset - 1 then
put chars(aString, 1, (tOffset - 1)) after tTreatedString
end if
put aReplacement after tTreatedString
delete char 1 to (tOffset + tLengthAdjust) of aString
else -- there are no more occurrences
put aString after tTreatedString
return tTreatedString
end if
end repeat
end ReplaceAll
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