Hi
I'm processing a large number of lines from a text file that are
padded at the end of each line with a tab followed by a variable
number of 'x', e.g.
data(tab)xxxxxxxxxx
data2(tab)xxxxx
data3(tab)xxxxxx
Whilst I can use a repeat loop to cycle through deleting the last
item (using tab as the itemDelimiter), this is very slow. If there
were a fixed number of 'x' at the end then I'd simply use a replace
command, e.g.
replace tab & "xxx" with "" in readBuffer
I thought about using the replaceText function which support regular
expressions, but I can't see how I can show the tab and end-of-line
(EOL) in the regex? I would have tried:
put replaceText(readBuffer, "\txx*\n", "\n") into newBuffer
Any ideas how I might do this or perhaps another approach completely?
Cheers
Peter
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