actually, i have a couple of questions, which are maybe suggestions, but are actually questions, because maybe someone else will be curious enough to try to solve them * did you check the oss source to see if the function is available? * have you messed with using regex to get around the issue?
On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 3:48 PM Paul Dupuis via use-livecode <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 7/26/2023 1:13 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: > > OIC what that does. I suggest having a hidden field, setting the text of > > that field to your variable, then operating on that field. > > > > Bob S > > That is what I am currently doing. And I have a hidden field, hidden > image, hidden player - all for purposes of various operations that you > can do on real objects that the templateField, templateImage, and > templatePlayer don't do (although there are some things done very nicely > with the templates, such as set the rtfText of the templateField to > <someRTF>; get the text of the templateField -- for conversion from RTF > to text (or text to htmlText or htmlText to text or ...) > > For reasons past that are not worth bring up in this email list, I have > a slight aversion to hidden objects and prefer to work with the > templateObjects or variables when i can. > > So, that is the very specific question of this post: Does anyone have a > clever trick to do the equivalent of charIndex on a variable of text? > > I guess the allowed answers are "No" (no post is necessary), Yes (but I > won't share it) (also no post necessary), Yes, and here it is (thank > you), or perhaps a 4th, I don't understand the question, please clarify > (which I would be happy to do if someone thinks they have a clever > solution and just needs a bit more info) > > Paul > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode -- On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth On the second day, God created the oceans. On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours, and did a little diving. And God said, "This is good." _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
