replaceText

Mark Schonewille m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com
Wed Jun 13 05:35:36 EDT 2012


Hi Richmond,

ReplaceText is a function, not a command and you can't replace anything in a literal but only in a container.

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On 13 jun 2012, at 11:19, Richmond wrote:

> put fld "TEXXT" into TEXXT
>  if TEXXT contains "sugar" then
>    replaceText ("sugar","sugar","sweetener")
> end if
> put TEXXT into fld "TEXXT"
> 
> doesn't work.
> 
> The dictionary entry does NOT say something like this:
> 
> replaceText TEXXT ("sugar","sugar","sweetener")
> 
> ----------------------
> 
> tried:
> 
> if fld "TEXXT" contains "sugar" then
>    replaceText ("sugar","sugar","sweetener")
> end if
> 
> no joy there either.
> 
> ???
> 
> Richmond.





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