Or, more oil-fashioned, and again assuming that the integer in question is
always the very first one in parentheses:
on mouseUpput random(99) into char offset("(",yourString) + 1 of yourStringend
mouseUp
You will get tired of running this after only a few invocations.
Craig
-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Harrison via use-livecode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>
To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>
Cc: Rick Harrison <harri...@all-auctions.com>
Sent: Sun, Apr 26, 2020 2:26 pm
Subject: Wildcard? replaceText, offset?
I have a very long string.
In the middle-end part of the string I have “(x)” where x represents some
integer.
it could be (4) or (10) or (5) etc.
I just want to replace the number inside the () with whatever other number I
need to.
I have been trying to find an easy way to do this. Ideally a wildcard
character like ? or *
would probably do it, but after going through the dictionary and getting lost
with
filter, matchText, … I finally decided perhaps one of you could make a better
suggestion. It seems like this one should be very easy, but it’s not so easy
if you
don’t do this kind of thing all the time.
Thanks,
Rick
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