I didn't know this...

Peter M. Brigham pmbrig at gmail.com
Sun Dec 28 09:54:33 EST 2014


On Dec 27, 2014, at 1:54 PM, DunbarX at aol.com wrote:

> The beauty of xTalk chunking expressions is that they do just this sort of thing. So if you had:
> 
> 
> "ABCDEFG" in a field 1, you can just as easily:
> 
> 
> -- replace "D" with empty in fld 1
> -- delete char 4 of fld 1

Yeah, that stuff is basic. I do text manipulation up, down, and sideways, but I never discovered that replace works on chunks.

-- Peter

Peter M. Brigham
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