replaceText() not working as expected for multiple lines

[Peter M. Brigham]

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but can't you just do 
   replace "/Users/hawk/bk_clients/" with empty in myVariable
and do it all at once with no regex?

-- Peter

Peter M. Brigham
pmbrig at gmail.com
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On Sep 20, 2014, at 4:02 PM, Mike Bonner wrote:

> You could change your shell call, and use sed inline to strip what you
> don't want before sending it back to LC
> Since I don't know how you're generating the list, i'm using find to do it
> on .mov files
> Quote the whole string, use a pipe to sed with the -e switch, surround the
> string for sed with single quotes.  escape slashes with a backslash.  also
> escape . with a backslash (necessary in my case since i'm using find from
> the current dir.  If find was "find / -name...", or a full path to the
> start location, it wouldn't be necessary to have the preceeding .
> The following example, finds all .mov files starting in the defaultfolder,
> and removes /skyDrive/ from the beginning.  Replaces it with nothing (hence
> the // at the end)
> 
> put shell("find . -name *.mov | sed -e 's/^\.\/skyDrive\///'") into tDat
> 
> On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:
> 
>> You might try (?m) to switch on multiline mode at the start of your regex.
>> I'm pretty sure that won't work though.  LC makes you use a repeat loop to
>> go through each line and issue the replaceText() against each one.
>> 
>> Hope that Thierry chimes in with a workaround for this - he's the LC regex
>> King.
>> 
>> Pete
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>> On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Dr. Hawkins <dochawk at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I have a variable with:
>>> 
>>> /Users/hawk/bk_clients/blue aardvark/blue_aardvark____001.dhbk
>>> /Users/hawk/bk_clients/pink panther/pink_panther_____001.dhbk
>>> /Users/hawk/bk_clients/super chicken/super_chicken____005.dhbk
>>> /Users/hawk/bk_clients/test5/test5____________001.dhbk
>>> 
>>> which was obtained with a shell command and ls on OSX
>>> 
>>> Using replaceText() to replace ^/Users/hawk/bk_clients/ with empty, I get
>>> 
>>> blue aardvark/blue_aardvark____001.dhbk
>>> /Users/hawk/bk_clients/pink panther/pink_panther_____001.dhbk
>>> /Users/hawk/bk_clients/super chicken/super_chicken____005.dhbk
>>> /Users/hawk/bk_clients/test5/test5____________001.dhbk
>>> 
>>> That is, the ^ is only being applied to the variable as a whole, rather
>>> than to each line.
>>> 
>>> Does this have to do with how livecode and OSX delimit lines?
>>> 
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