Datagrid column of data with trailing spaces

Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel skip at magicgate.com
Mon Jul 14 17:38:10 EDT 2014


Phil,

That did it!  I had already started to test the previous code you sent and
it wasn't working as expected. Your modified code works perfectly.

Thank you!

SKIP


On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 5:30 PM, Phil Davis <revdev at pdslabs.net> wrote:

> Oops. I should read your problem description better before I try to solve
> it.
>
> put the dgText of grp "dgTryAgain" into tText
> split tText by column
> repeat for each line tLine in tText[1]
>     put word 1 to -1 of tLine & CR after tNewCol
> end repeat
> delete last char of tNewCol
> put tNewCol into tText[1]
> combine tText by column
> set the dgText of grp "dgTryAgain" to tText
>
> That should do it.
> Phil
>
>
>
> On 7/14/14, 2:21 PM, Phil Davis wrote:
>
>> put the dgText of grp "dgGrid" into tText
>> repeat for each line tLine in tText
>>     put word 1 to -1 of tLine & CR after tNewText
>> end repeat
>> delete last char of tNewText
>> set the dgText of grp "dgGrid" to tNewText
>>
>> :-)
>> Phil Davis
>>
>>
>> On 7/14/14, 1:56 PM, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel wrote:
>>
>>> Good afternoon,
>>>
>>> I have a datagrid and column 1 has trailing spaces in the data items
>>> that I
>>> need to get rid of.  The number of trailing spaces is never
>>> consistent.  Once again, I think regex will be my friend / worst enemy :)
>>>
>>> Suggestions on how to do this effectively?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for your input,
>>>
>>> SKIP
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