Not shy at all...

[Jeanne A. E. DeVoto]

At 9:55 AM -0700 6/6/2004, Bob Nelson wrote:
>Two fields and two buttons so I can work through the example - the first
>field is the 'holder' of the remote URL which has been retrieved
>(Imported_Raw) and the second field will be the restructured output when I'm
>done.
>
>Here's the code, for those who want to dive deeper...
>
[...]

Using replace (instead of looping through each line) will be quite a 
lot faster:

on mouseUp
   put field "Imported_Raw" into rawText -- manipulations are much 
faster in variables
   repeat while return & return is in rawText
     replace return & return with return in rawText -- nuke blank lines
   end repeat
   repeat while return & space is in rawText
     replace return & space with return in rawText -- nuke leading space
   end repeat
   put rawText into field "Imported_Raw"
end mouseUp

>4.  I don't see any mechanisms for determining progress of the operation --
>although I may have certainly missed something.  Are there any progress
>bars, etc., that one can use in Revolution?

There's a progress bar object (actually a variant of the scrollbar). 
The way to handle this is to update the bar's thumbPosition property 
each time through the loop. Here's a simple example:

   repeat with x = 1 to 100
     set the thumbPosition of scrollbar "Progress Indicator" to x
     updateCard x
     -- or do whatever the loop is supposed to do
   end repeat

But the script above should run fast enough that you won't need one.

>5.  Looking through all the examples I can find, as well as documentation, I
>noted that there aren't many examples related to text manipulation - and
>importing/exporting text, etc., in/out of your stack.  I'm sure I missed
>something on this front, as I'm sure people would be doing this all the
>time...  Can anyone point me in a direction?

On the "All Documentation By Category" page, click "Text and Data 
Processing" - there are a number of examples and how-tos for 
importing, counting, manipulating, etc.

By the way, it's simple to strip HTML using the HTMLText property:

   -- myData contains HTML:
   set the HTMLText of field "Holder" to myData
   put the text of field "Holder" into myData
   -- myData now contains just the text
-- 
jeanne a. e. devoto ~ jaed at jaedworks.com
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