repeat loop and formatting question

Mark Swindell mdswindell at cruzio.com
Sun Nov 16 00:32:35 EST 2008


Another question:  Is there a straightforward way to maintain  
uppercase letters in this swap-out scheme?

replace "th" with "<b>th</b>" in tText also replaces "Th" with "<b>th</ 
 >"

Thanks,
Mark




On Nov 15, 2008, at 4:10 PM, Ken Ray wrote:

>> How about
>>
>> put fld 1 into tText
>> replace "ck" with "<font><b>ck</b></font>" in tText
>> replace "ch" with "<font><b>ch</b></font>" in tText
>> replace "oa" with "<font><u>ch</u></font>" in tText
>> replace "oo" with "<font><u>oo</u></font>" in tText
>> ...
>> set the htmltext of fld 1 to tText
>
> Actually, you can type less by eliminating the <font> tags:
>
> put fld 1 into tText
> replace "ck" with "<b>ck</b>" in tText
> replace "ch" with "<b>ch</b>" in tText
> replace "oa" with "<u>ch</u>" in tText
> replace "oo" with "<u>oo</u>" in tText




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