Replacing Characters

[JB]

Hi Dick,

I found the char was getting off by 1 each line
because of the EOL returns.  Here is a regex
to strip the EOL returns.

put replacetext(theData,"[\0\cM\r\f\n]","") into theData

and then here is some code to put the EOL returns back.

     put theData into tString
      --put fld id 1022 into tString
      put number of chars in tString into tChars
      put tChars / 72 into tLineNums
      put the round of tLineNums into tLineNums
      put 72 into i
      repeat for tLineNums times
           put return after char i of tString
         add 72 to i
         end repeat
      put tString into fld id 1022
   end if

I am sure this code can be improved but it
does work.  Of course the variables need to
be renamed to work with the code you have
posted.

Thanks again, it is a great help.

John Balgenorth
  

On Sep 27, 2014, at 1:49 AM, Dick Kriesel <dick.kriesel at mail.com> wrote:

> On Sep 27, 2014, at 12:23 AM, JB <sundown at pacifier.com> wrote:
> 
>> But there might be a faster way.
> 
> Hi, John.
> 
> Here's a way that works in under a millisecond on my iMac, and a way to test its speed.
> 
> command replace_maybe @rString
>    repeat with i = 3 to length( rString ) step 3
>        if char i of rString is "D" then
>            put "+" into char i of rString
>        end if
>    end repeat
> end replace_maybe
> 
> on mouseUp
>    local tString, tMilliseconds
>    repeat 1000 -- strings
>        put empty into tString
>        repeat 10000 -- characters
>            put any char of "abcdef" after tString
>        end repeat
>        subtract the long milliseconds from tMilliseconds
>        replace_maybe tString
>        add the long milliseconds to tMilliseconds
>    end repeat
>   answer "milliseconds per string:" && tMilliseconds / 1000
> end mouseUp
> 
> How's that, John?
> 
> -- Dick
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