OT: Analyzing competitors - In this case Real Software

[Troy Rollins]

> 
> i = instr(myString, chr$(13)+chr$(10))
> while (i >> 0)
>  myString = left$(myString, i-1) + chr$(10) + mid$(myString, i+2)
>  i = instr(myString, chr$(13)+chr$(10))
> wend
> 
> Pretty close to what I came up with, although your implementation is
> more compact an probably a bit faster - I may go back and look into
> modifying mine a bit some day. I think you want right() instead of
> mid(), though, and the "$" syntax has been deprecated for some time
> now.
> 

Just to be fair, and so not to get too overly smug, this is how
someone that is actually familiar with RB would approach the task -

EditField1.Text = ReplaceLineEndings(EditField1.Text,EndOfLine.Macintosh)

It hardly seems so crazy complex when put that way, does it?

FWIW.

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Troy Rollins
RPSystems, Ltd.
www.rpsystems.net