Paul McNett wrote: > Split all the words into a temporary cursor, where the word itself is one > field and > the trailing whitespace is another. REPLACE ALL word with "*" where word = > "SES". > Then iterate the cursor to rebuild the string.
Yeah, that's what I initially did (but without array...just cycling through with GETWORDNUM and building the replacement string on the fly--no array, no cursor). Was just 6-10 lines of code maybe. > > Oh, wait, there has to be a better way than this. Oh, yeah: regular > expressions. I > think there must be an external library for this in VFP? The others suggested Craig Boyd's RegExp utility for VFP, as you may have seen. > > If not, you could shell out to Python which has it built-in, and it would > even be a > quite short 1-liner. Saw that from Ed. Impressive. Thanks. -- Mike Babcock, MCP MB Software Solutions, LLC President, Chief Software Architect http://mbsoftwaresolutions.com http://fabmate.com http://twitter.com/mbabcock16 _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
