Text Field Woes

[Bernard Devlin]

I'm not sure what the problem is here.  Can you provide a sample URL and the
basic transcript of the code you are using so we can see where it is going
wrong.  It sounds to me like your process of 'digesting' the text might be
causing the problem.

I just found a web page with currencies on it (www.xe.com), and simply using

set the htmlText of fld "currencies" to URL "http://www.xe.com"

seems to produce a page without the boxed text you are describing as a
problem.  Are you sure that you haven't just set the textStyle of that field
so that it will display as boxed?

Bernard


On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 2:54 PM, <len-morgan at crcom.net> wrote:

> I'm trying to "read" a web page and extract data from it.  I can read the
> page ok and put the text in a variable.  I can parse and remove most of
> the extraneous stuff (<TD>...</TD> etc.).  Where I'm having a problem is
> when I put the digested information into a field to check it, each line is
> in a 3 dimensional box as if it was still trying to display the field as
> html.  I AM setting the text of the field (not the htmlText) but I still
> get the boxes around the text.
>
> The reason this is a problem is that the data is a table composed of a
> time and 4 dollar amounts on each line.  I need to convert this to a line
> with the items separated by commas so I can pick the items I want and work
> with them.  I have tried replacing "comma & cr" with comma, "comma" &
> numToChar(13), with comma, etc but it doesn't seem to find any of those.
>
> Is there some way to suppress the display of data as html so that I get
> REAL carriage returns or something I can work with?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Len Morgan
>
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