repeat loop and formatting question

[Jim Ault]

On 11/14/08 1:55 PM, "Mark Swindell" <mdswindell at cruzio.com> wrote:

> What would be the most efficient structure and syntax to achieve the
> following?:
> 
> A text field containing several paragraphs. I want to run through the
> field, finding and formatting certain strings, all occurrences of a
> list of certain letter combinations:
> 
> example, all occurrences of
> "ck" = bold
> "ch" = bold
> "oa" = underline
> "oo" = underline
>   etc.
> 
> The repeat loops I have tried run slowly and there are too many
> unnecessary passes (it seems).  I know there must be a more succinct,
> efficient statement that should work.
> 
Since you don't give any example of the code you are using, I am going to
make a few assumptions.  Try the idea of...
1) put the field into a variable
2) replace " ch " with "<font><bold> ch </bold></font>" in variableTxt
(note spaces around ' ch ' in order to locate only words)
.. and after all the replacements were completed,

set the htmlText of field "textBlock" to variableTxt

Hope this helps,

Jim Ault
Las Vegas