rtftext and matchChunk

Dar Scott dsc at swcp.com
Sun Aug 3 23:12:01 EDT 2003


On Sunday, August 3, 2003, at 03:22 PM, Alex Rice wrote:

>> Looks like the regular expression "\s" doesn't match
>> whitespace that comes from rtf text.  Okay, that
>> problem is specific enough that I can work around it.
>
> Looks like matchText does work OK for spaces in the rtftext, but 
> newlines are encoded as a new paragraph and a tab is encoded as the 
> escape sequence "\'09".  I am guessing the regex engine has no concept 
> of RTF so you would have to replaceText those things first.

Hmmm.  I may be confused on the problem.  I thought the rtf of a field 
was set but the matchChunk had trouble with the resulting text.

Dar Scott




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