Replacetext of any characters between parentheses with a space

[Richmond Mathewson]

Well, for both their repetitive an tedious lyrics, and their bank-rolling
the Christ Brotherhood
I can honestly say that I am grateful that most of the Grateful Dead are .
. .

On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 12:12 PM David V Glasgow via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Ha! Another way.  I couldn’t get the regex to work, despite Paul's
> invaluable help reminding me that replacetext  is a function.
>
> My cobbled together solution involved setting itemdel to parentheses then
> deleting items.
>
> As the Grateful Dead rather repetitively put it:
>
> So many roads
> So many roads
> Mountain high, river wide
> So many roads to ride
> So many roads
> So many roads
>
> (in LiveCode)
>
> Cheers
>
> David G
>
> > On 10 Jun 2021, at 9:10 am, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >
> > Well, at the rsik of getting things wrong, here's my attempt:
> >
> > https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=35951
> >
> > Richmond.
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 8:05 PM David V Glasgow via use-livecode <
> > use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >
> >> LC coders, please tell me why this won’t work!  My guess is that this
> is a
> >> regex issue, not LC, but I am so stuck.
> >>
> >> I want to replace all text within in parentheses (including the
> >> parentheses) with a single space.  I have tried assembling the
> >> matchExpression in advance and in line, and also escaping the
> parentheses
> >> just in case they are reserved in regex.  Or do I need to enclose the
> >> matchExpression in something other than or in addition to, quotes?
> >>
> >> on mouseup
> >>
> >>  put field "import" into timport
> >>
> >>  replacetext (timport, "(.*)", " ")
> >>
> >>  put timport into field "import"
> >>
> >> end mouseup
> >>
> >>
> >> I get the less than inspiring:
> >>
> >> execution error at line 3 (Handler: can't find handler) near
> >> "replacetext", char 1
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Best Wishes,
> >>
> >> David Glasgow
> >>
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