Replacetext of any characters between parentheses with a space

[David V Glasgow]

Ha! Another way.  I couldn’t get the regex to work, despite Paul's invaluable help reminding me that replacetext  is a function.

My cobbled together solution involved setting itemdel to parentheses then deleting items.

As the Grateful Dead rather repetitively put it:

So many roads
So many roads 
Mountain high, river wide
So many roads to ride
So many roads
So many roads

(in LiveCode)

Cheers

David G

> On 10 Jun 2021, at 9:10 am, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Well, at the rsik of getting things wrong, here's my attempt:
> 
> https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=35951
> 
> Richmond.
> 
> On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 8:05 PM David V Glasgow via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
>> LC coders, please tell me why this won’t work!  My guess is that this is a
>> regex issue, not LC, but I am so stuck.
>> 
>> I want to replace all text within in parentheses (including the
>> parentheses) with a single space.  I have tried assembling the
>> matchExpression in advance and in line, and also escaping the parentheses
>> just in case they are reserved in regex.  Or do I need to enclose the
>> matchExpression in something other than or in addition to, quotes?
>> 
>> on mouseup
>> 
>>  put field "import" into timport
>> 
>>  replacetext (timport, "(.*)", " ")
>> 
>>  put timport into field "import"
>> 
>> end mouseup
>> 
>> 
>> I get the less than inspiring:
>> 
>> execution error at line 3 (Handler: can't find handler) near
>> "replacetext", char 1
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Best Wishes,
>> 
>> David Glasgow
>> 
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