filter? replace? wildcard? reg exp? help please!

[Peter Bogdanoff]

Try—
put your text into tText, then

repeat forever
	if offset("[",tText) is not empty then
		delete char (offset("[",tText)) to (offset("]",tText)) of tText
	else
	exit repeat
end repeat



On May 9, 2017, at 8:54 PM, Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> use offset.
> 
> Peter
> 
> 
> On May 9, 2017, at 8:41 PM, Nicolas Cueto via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
>> Given this snippet...
>> 
>> -------------------------------------------------------
>> CANTO XXXIV
>> CÍRCULO IX: TRAIDORES.
>> «Vexilla regis prodeunt[307] del Abismo
>> hacia nosotros[308], mas delante mira
>> 3—dijo el maestro— y los verás tú mismo.»
>> -------------------------------------------------------
>> 
>> ... how do I use LC to remove the square-brackets and any string within
>> them, so that the snippet becomes...
>> 
>> -------------------------------------------------------
>> CANTO XXXIV
>> CÍRCULO IX: TRAIDORES.
>> «Vexilla regis prodeunt del Abismo
>> hacia nosotros, mas delante mira
>> 3—dijo el maestro— y los verás tú mismo.»
>> -------------------------------------------------------
>> 
>> Muchas gracias.
>> 
>> --
>> Nicolás Cueto
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