Another Weird Thing??

[Devin Asay]

Dave,
On Apr 13, 2006, at 12:32 PM, David Burgun wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I seem to be being plagued by weirdness today! Take a look at this  
> code:
>
>     set the itemDelimiter to  
> ","                                                             -- 
> Do I need this?
>     put theMessageData into myMessageData
>     put replaceText(myMessageData,"|",",") into myMessageData
>
>
> When I run this and look at myMessageData before the replaceText()  
> statment, it contains:
>
> "10|30|366|460|"
>
> But after the replaceText() call, myMessageData is empty!!!!!
>
> How can this be?

What you want is the replace command, not the replaceText() function.

    replace "|" with comma in myMessageData

The replaceText() function operates on regular expressions, and "|"  
has a special meaning in regex.

Devin

Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University