last char, Unicode and other probs.

[Robert Sneidar]

Did you try char -2 to -1? Isn't unicode 2 byte?

Bob


On Dec 25, 2012, at 5:46 AM, Richmond wrote:

> So here I am with a field full of unicodeText
> wanting to copy the last character across to another field,
> so tried these possibilities:
> 
> on mouseUp
>  set the useUnicode to true
>  set the unicodeText of fld "OOTPUT" to the last char of fld "INNPUT"
> end mouseUp
> 
> on mouseUp
>  set the useUnicode to true
>  put the charToNum(the last char of fld "INNPUT") into LSTCH
>  set the unicodeText of fld "OOTPUT" to numToChar(LSTCH)
> end mouseUp
> 
> and had no joy with either of them.
> 
> Any bright ideas would be welcomed; err, quite frankly, at this point the ideas don't
> even have to be bright, they just have to work.
> 
> Richmond.
> 
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