Marc, You can create your own custom functions for RBase to use.
Not withstanding that, here is some sample code on how work around the SRPL problem. This method works whether your replacement value is null or not SET VAR vTmp = 'abc' -- original text SET VAR vFind = 'b' -- Text to find SET VAR vRepl TEXT = NULL -- text to substitute SET VAR vPos INTEGER SET VAR vLen INTEGER SET VAR vPre TEXT SET VAR vPost TEXT SET VAR vPos = (SLOC(.vTmp,.vFind)) IF vPos > 0 THEN SET VAR vLen = (SLEN(.vFind)) SET VAR vPre = (SGET(.vTmp,(.vPos-1),1)) SET VAR vPost = (SGET(.vTmp,(SLEN(.vTmp)),(.vPos+.vLen))) SET VAR vTmp = (.vPre+.vRepl+.vPost) ENDIF SHOW V vTmp RETURN Dennis McGRath -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of MDRD Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 1:37 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: SRPL limit? Dennis You and Larry are talking over my head and give me too much credit. Marc ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis McGrath" <[email protected]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 1:15 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: SRPL limit? I think one of your best bets is to do as Larry suggested and make you own function (stored procedure) that you can call. I suspect someone on this list already has such a function written. Dennis -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of MDRD Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 12:27 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: SRPL limit? Dennis I thought of that but extra spaces would look bad in the paragraph. It seems I can come up with some strange needs in my APP. Marc ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis McGrath" <[email protected]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 12:16 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: SRPL limit? Bummer, As far as I can tell, it has worked that way for some time. It does limit the usefulness of this function quite a lot. You could change himer to a space but that may not be what you want. Dennis McGrath
