> I have a field of data that I want to format into a web page. The data
> can contain symbols, most likely just the degree symbol but possibly
> others. If I get the htmltext of the field, it gives me the correct
> entity for the degree symbol: °
>
> However I don't want to use the htmltext, since I am building my own
> table display from the data. Is there a way to translate a symbol to
> it's html entity? I suppose I could just use a lookup table of the
> likely candidates and loop through them, replacing as necessary, but
> since Rev "knows" the entities, I was hoping there was a function that
> I haven't spotted, to get them directly.
>
You could cut/paste the list from the rev docs :-)


I'm not suggesting this directly, but you could do something based on ...

repeat with i = 1 to the number of chars in fld "Field"
  if "&" is in the htmltext of char i of fld "Field" then
    put char i of fld "Field" && the htmltext of char i of fld "Field" &
cr after msg
  end if
end repeat


Thanks Alex, this looks like the way to go. I hadn't realised I could
get the htmlText of a single character.

Cheers,
Sarah
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