ANN: Remove double spaces--plugin
Jim Hurley
jhurley at infostations.com
Mon Dec 5 11:35:51 EST 2005
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>Message: 9
>Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 20:02:28 -0800
>From: Jim Ault <JimAultWins at yahoo.com>
>Subject: Re: ANN: Remove double spaces--plugin
>To: How to use Revolution <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
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> > It will replace doubles spaces in a text field with single spaces
>> without affecting the formatting.
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>Another approach is to use :
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>put replaceText(fld storyline," +"," ") into fld storyline
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>which is the regular expression that replaces all runs of spaces with a
>single space. The " +" says 'one or more spaces'
>Further... automation is possible for any field when it is closed.
>Simply add to a stack script, back script, or stack in use stack script
Jim,
Thanks for the tip.
If there if formatting in the field you might use:
put replaceText(the htmlText of field 1," +"," ") into tText
set the htmltext of field 1 to tText
Jim
(Seems that every Tom, Dick and Harry is named Jim.)
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