On Sunday, December 30, 2012, Richmond wrote: > > > starts off by describing the blindingly obvious, and then tries to dress > the whole thing up in a load of jargon so > some fancy academic can draw a fat salary for understanding the blindingly > obvious, and/or > being capable of thinking in a straight line . . . but, hey, that seems to > be a universal problem. >
if academics drew fat salaries, I would still be one. I'm practicing law again for the simple reason I need to make enough to send my own kids to school . . . but anyway . . . > I have a line of text in "some funny language" that goes like this; > > 1aQngh1swnpQavh > > now there are the following considerations I have to deal with: > > 1. Every time I encounter a '1' it has to be shunted after the char it > precedes. > 2. Every time I encounter a 'Q' it has to be shunted before a char it > comes after. > 3. 1aQ (this is what is known as "the squirrel in the wood-pile" (and I'm > sorry if I have offended any squirrels). > > Now a hierarchy of pattern recognition means I have to trap '1aQ' > before I trap '1' and 'Q', because if I do things the other way round > everything is going to be "stewed squirrel" to coin a phrase. s/1\(.\)Q/magic_string_2\1magic_sting_1/g s/1\(.\)/\11/g s/\(.\)Q/1Q/g s/magic_string_1/1/g s/magic_string_2/Q/g There's probably a syntax error or three in that (I don't need them very often any more), and I suspect it can do it in one line, but I don't remember conditionals. The magic strings are just any string that would never occur; I usually use ZZZ and GGG. > > -- Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 _______________________________________________ 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
