Thank you for the info. I knew someone who knew everything once but with the rapid pace of change in technology it became impossible for him to keep up and everyday he ended up knowing a little bit less.
John Balgenorth On Sep 26, 2014, at 9:50 PM, <la...@significantplanet.org> <la...@significantplanet.org> wrote: > My experience is that when doing string searching offset() is by far the > fastest way. > But I don't know everything. > Larry > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "JB" <sund...@pacifier.com> > To: "How to use LiveCode" <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> > Sent: Friday, September 26, 2014 10:26 PM > Subject: Replacing Characters > > >> I want to replace every third character in >> a text string if it is a certain character. So >> lets say I have a list of characters there >> range from A thru F and the list is possibly >> 10,000 characters long. >> >> I want to check every third character in the >> list and if it is a D then I want to change it >> to a +. >> >> I can probably do it with a repeat and use a >> variable for a counter that resets every three >> times and then check the character when the >> counter gets to three but I was wondering if it >> could be done faster somehow. >> >> John Balgenorth >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
