Changing the Style of Words in Field And Quotation Marks?

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Mon May 3 17:29:45 EDT 2010


Peter Brigham MD wrote:

> The general problem here is that, contrary to all other computing 
> contexts I know about, in Rev anything enclosed by true quotation marks 
> is regarded by the engine as one word.

It's for HC compatibility, which worked the same way. You can often get 
around it like this:

  set the itemdelimiter to space
  put the number of items in fld 1

If you have carriage returns or tabs in the text, you'll probably need 
to replace them with spaces in a temporary variable first.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com



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