> 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 _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
