Any characters wildcard or regex?

[Mike Bonner]

if you want to use regex, I think you have to use replacetext rather than
replace, unless replace has been updated when I wasn't looking.
I did a quicky test..

put field 1 into tData -- field with text containing html tags
put replacetext(tData,"<.*>",empty) into tNewData
put tNewData

Also, in your example above I assume you correctly set the htmltext rather
than the html..

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 8:46 AM, Keith Clarke <keith.clarke at me.com> wrote:

> Thanks Mike & Klaus,
> The simple line 'replace "<.*>" with empty in tFileText’ would be ideal,
> but it seems to be ignored.
>
> The html approach seems to hit an early hurdle, too - if I...
>
> set the html of field "FldFileText" to URL(tFileName)
> set the text of field "FldFileText" to the text of field “FldFileText
>
> ...this results in an empty field after the first or both lines. Perhaps
> this is because the source file is a CSV with only one item having any HTML
> tags?
>
> Just to clarify the problem - the source text I’m working with comes from
> CSV file imports and some files contain RTF fields amongst their items.
> These RTF styling tags sometimes contain quotes & commas that are causing
> occasional glitches with the CSV item delimiting - hence the need to
> pre-process and strip out all tags before processing the CSV import.
>
> Thanks again for your insights.
> Best,
> Keith..
>
> > On 22 Sep 2016, at 15:12, Klaus major-k <klaus at major-k.de> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Mike and Keith,
> >
> >> Am 22.09.2016 um 16:03 schrieb Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com>:
> >>
> >> Using replacetext, you're probably looking for "<.*>"
> >> but you might be able to use a field for this..  set the htmltext of the
> >> field to your source text, Then if you don't want the formatting
> preserved
> >> set the text of the field to the text of the field.  One problem with
> this
> >> method is that you may end up with javascript left over because it can
> >> appear between <script> and </script>
> >
> > you can even (ab)use "the templatefield" for this:
> > ...
> > set the htmltext of the templatefield to url("http://your_url/here.html
> ")
> > put the text of the templatefield into fld 1 # or a variable
> > reset the templatefield ## !!
> > ...
> >
> >> On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 7:34 AM, Keith Clarke <keith.clarke at me.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi folks,
> >>> I’m trying to strip out all HTML tags from text in a variable.
> Replacement
> >>> of specific tags works fine... replace “<ul>" with empty in tText …but
> I’m
> >>> struggling to find (documentation on) a blanket ‘any number of any
> >>> characters’ wildcard or regex approach...
> >>>
> >>> So far I’ve tried "<*>”, “<[*]>”,  “<[.*]>”, "<" & "[.*]" & “>” to no
> avail
> >>>
> >>> Any clues greatly appreciated.
> >>> Best,
> >>> Keith..
> >
> > Best
> >
> > Klaus
> >
> > --
> > Klaus Major
> > http://www.major-k.de
> > klaus at major-k.de
> >
> >
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