Replacing Characters

[JB]

Thanks!

John Balgenorth


On Sep 30, 2014, at 4:12 PM, Bob Sneidar <bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com> wrote:

> 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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