On 6/9/2021 1:10 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote:
on mouseup
put field "import" into timport
put replacetext(timport,"(.*)"," ") into field "import"
end mouseup
I think parenthesis are are reserved character in regex, so them may
need to be escaped with a backslash like: (my regex
Well, for both their repetitive an tedious lyrics, and their bank-rolling
the Christ Brotherhood
I can honestly say that I am grateful that most of the Grateful Dead are .
. .
On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 12:12 PM David V Glasgow via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> Ha! Another
Ha! Another way. I couldn’t get the regex to work, despite Paul's invaluable
help reminding me that replacetext is a function.
My cobbled together solution involved setting itemdel to parentheses then
deleting items.
As the Grateful Dead rather repetitively put it:
So many roads
So many
Well, at the rsik of getting things wrong, here's my attempt:
https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=7=35951
Richmond.
On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 8:05 PM David V Glasgow via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> LC coders, please tell me why this won’t work! My guess is that
D’Oh!
Thanks Paul. Much appreciated.
Cheers
David G
> On 9 Jun 2021, at 6:10 pm, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> On 6/9/2021 1:03 PM, David V Glasgow via use-livecode wrote:
>> on mouseup
>>
>> put field "import" into timport
>>
>> replacetext (timport, "(.*)", " ")
>>
On 6/9/2021 1:03 PM, David V Glasgow via use-livecode wrote:
on mouseup
put field "import" into timport
replacetext (timport, "(.*)", " ")
put timport into field "import"
end mouseup
replaceText is a function, not a command, so
on mouseup
put field "import" into timport
put
LC coders, please tell me why this won’t work! My guess is that this is a
regex issue, not LC, but I am so stuck.
I want to replace all text within in parentheses (including the parentheses)
with a single space. I have tried assembling the matchExpression in advance
and in line, and also
