> From: Kay C Lan > > Actually I take that back. If Pages places an extra space after EVERY > char, so there are two spaces between words instead of one, there is a > space after the last word on a line but before the carriage return, > and another space after the carriage return and before the first char > of a new line, then it should be just a simple matter of: > > --assuming the very first char is invalid > put true into tOdd > repeat for each char tChar in tData > if (tOdd = true) > put tChar after tOutput > put false into tOdd > else > put true into tOdd > end if > end repeat > put tOutput into fld "WhereEver" > > If there is not an extra space after EVERY char, then it becomes much > more difficult.
Is it possible that the original text file is in Unicode, so that each character in the ASCII set is followed by a null, and something is converting the nulls into blanks? Possibly the display routine itself? -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paul mailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode