Very nice Jim. Thanks for the tips. I still get hung up sometimes with the 1 to -1 . It's like my mind says isn't that like 0? Ha, and then I laugh and put it in anyway, but it is not the first thing that comes to mind.
-- Tom McGrath III http://lazyriver.on-rev.com 3mcgr...@comcast.net On Dec 29, 2010, at 1:02 AM, Jim Ault wrote: > To remove leading and trailing white space (space, tab...) > >> repeat with x = 1 to the number of lines in tTemp > > put word 1 to -1 of line x of tTemp into line x of tTemp >> end repeat > > >> if line x of tTemp is quote then delete line x of tTemp > [use] filter tTemp without quote > >> if line x of tTemp is "" then delete line x of tTemp > [use] filter tTemp without empty > > >> By the way I tried all of the examples posted to better see what I was >> missing. I'm a visual oriented person and so I went with steps I could see. >> Only one problem in removing leading spaces, I took the lazy way out after >> getting confused again with multiple repeat loops etc. >> >> So here is what I decided to use for now: >> >> on mouseUp >> put "http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?w=22664069&u=f"; into >> tTempURL >> put url tTempURL into field "Source" >> put field 1 into tTemp >> filter tTemp with "*yweather:*" >> replace "<" with "" in tTemp >> replace "/>" with "" in tTemp >> replace "yweather:" with "" in tTemp >> replace quote&space with quote&cr in tTemp -- Did the trick >> repeat for 5 -- Lazy way to catch leading spaces >> repeat with x = 1 to the number of lines in tTemp >> if char 1 of line x of tTemp is space then delete char >> 1 of line x of tTemp >> if line x of tTemp is quote then delete line x of tTemp >> if line x of tTemp is "" then delete line x of tTemp >> end repeat >> end repeat >> if last line of tTemp is "" then delete last line of tTemp >> put tTemp into field "Result" >> end mouseUp >> >> I don't mind the quotes in the Result for my other code and I get a nice >> list of the info I need. >> > > Jim Ault > Las Vegas > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
