Wildcard? replaceText, offset?

[dunbarx at aol.com]

Pay no attention to the previous post, which only dealt with a single integer. Sloppy.
THIS old fashioned method works, though:
on mouseUpput offset("(",yourString) into startCharput offset(")", yourString) into endCharput random(999) into char (startChar + 1) to (endChar -1) of yourStringend mouseUp

Craig

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Subject: Re: Wildcard? replaceText, offset?


On Apr 26, 2020, at 11:24 AM, Rick reasoned

> In the middle-end part of the string I have “(x)” where x represents some integer.
> it could be (4) or (10) or (5) etc.


If you’re certain that this is the only, or even the first, integer, a regular expression search and replace or [0-9]+  would  do the trick.
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