Strip

[Klaus Major]

Bonsoir Yves,

> Hi,
>
> I get a problem with filter command
>
> I have a fld with lines.
> some lines end with "(*)"
>
> something like :
> xxx xxxxxx xxx
> xxx xxx (*)
> xxx xxxxxx xxx
> xxx xxxxxx (*)
> xxx xxxxxx xxxX
>
>
> I'd like to strip the "(*)" at the end of the lines
>
> so I write
>
> put fld "myData" into tData
> filter tData with ??????
>
> Heer I need your help. I don't find the trick !!
> Thank you for your help.
> -- Greetings.
>
> Yves COPPE

try this

...
put fld "myData" into tData
  repeat for each line l in tData
     if char -3 to -1 of l is not "(*)" then
         put l & CR after cleanedup
     end if
  end repeat
put cleanedup into fld "tData"
...

Is billion times faster than parsing the field and deleting
these chars in the field directly.


Au revoir


Klaus Major
klaus.major at metascape.org