"Replace" unformats text

Jan Schenkel janschenkel at yahoo.com
Sun Nov 28 00:40:49 EST 2004


--- Terry Vogelaar <tvogelaar at de-mare.nl> wrote:
> I'm doubting whether this belongs on the improve
> list or the use list. 
> But since I just need a workaround for now, I
> decided to choose the Use 
> list.
> 
> I tried to set the htmltext of a field to some html
> file. That worked 
> OK; the text appeared formatted. But then I used
> "replace return & 
> return & return with return & return" in that field,
> and all the 
> formatting was gone.
> 
> Is there a way to maintain the text formatting,
> while replacing those 
> ugly double white lines by single white lines? Or is
> GREPing through 
> the HTML code the only way?
> 
> Terry
> 

Hi Terry

Since lines in the text correspond to lines in the
htmlText in Revolution, it should be easy enough to
replace data inside the htmlText :
--
put the htmlText of field "foobar" into tHtmlText
replace (return & "<p></p>" & return & "<p></p>" & \
    return) with (return & "<p></p>" & return) in \
    tHtmlText
set the htmlText of field "foobar" to tHtmlText
--

Hope this helped,

Jan Schenkel.

=====
"As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time."  (La Rochefoucauld)


		
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