Replacing Characters

[Bob Sneidar]

Use repeat with i - 1 to the number of characters of myString step 3

Bob S


On Sep 27, 2014, at 24:23 , JB <sundown at pacifier.com> wrote:

> Another thing to consider is the characters are
> not in any specific crder.  It could be cfacded or
> anything else.
> 
> If is use a repeat for each char and the variable
> as a counter that resets every three times then
> I only need to make one pass through to make
> the changes.  But there might be a faster way.
> 
> John Balgenorth
> 
> 
> On Sep 26, 2014, at 11:31 PM, JB <sundown at pacifier.com> wrote:
> 
>> Thanks, Kay!
>> 
>> The problem is there are no delimiters.  It
>> is a string of only chars A to F and there
>> are no spaces etc.
>> 
>> John Balgenorth
>> 
>> 
>> On Sep 26, 2014, at 11:19 PM, Kay C Lan <lan.kc.macmail at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Assuming tBigList contains your data and it is a tab separated list.
>>> 
>>> set the itemDelimiter to tab
>>> repeat for each item tSearchThis in tBigList
>>> if (char 3 of tSearchThis = "D") then
>>> put "+" into char 3 of tSearchThis
>>> end if
>>> put tSearchThis & tab after tNewList
>>> end repeat
>>> --remove the trailing tab
>>> put word 1 to -1 of tNewList into tNewList
>>> set the itemDelimiter to comma
>>> 
>>> tNewList should now be your corrected list
>>> 
>>> HTH
>>> 
>>> On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 12:26 PM, JB <sundown at pacifier.com> wrote:
>>>> I want to replace every third character in
>>>> a text string if it is a certain character.  So
>>>> lets say I have a list of characters there
>>>> range from A thru F and the list is possibly
>>>> 10,000 characters long.
>>>> 
>>>> I want to check every third character in the
>>>> list and if it is a D then I want to change it
>>>> to a +.
>>>> 
>>>> I can probably do it with a repeat and use a
>>>> variable for a counter that resets every three
>>>> times and then check the character when the
>>>> counter gets to three but I was wondering if it
>>>> could be done faster somehow.
>>>> 
>>>> John Balgenorth
>>>> 
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