The explanation of ^ that I found states, "The ^ (circumflex or caret) outside square brackets means look only at the beginning of the target string.", so the way I see it, if it's only looking at the beginning it's not going to repeat through the rest of the lines, so you could use a repeat loop (tested and it works) or just don't use the ^.
If I put… /Users/hawk/bk_clients/blue aardvark/blue_aardvark____001.dhbk /Users/hawk/bk_clients/pink panther/pink_panther_____001.dhbk /Users/hawk/bk_clients/super chicken/super_chicken____005.dhbk /Users/hawk/bk_clients/test5/test5____________001.dhbk …into a variable tVar and use… put replaceText(tVar,"/Users/hawk/bk_clients/",empty) into tVarOut …then tVarOut contains: blue aardvark/blue_aardvark____001.dhbk pink panther/pink_panther_____001.dhbk super chicken/super_chicken____005.dhbk test5/test5____________001.dhbk or simply… replace "/Users/hawk/bk_clients/" with empty in tVar …then tVar contains: blue aardvark/blue_aardvark____001.dhbk pink panther/pink_panther_____001.dhbk super chicken/super_chicken____005.dhbk test5/test5____________001.dhbk I know replaceText can use regex, but as far as I can see in this case you are just removing a specific string… …Or am I missing some point again? Paul On Sep 20, 2014, at 1:05 PM, Dr. Hawkins <doch...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a variable with: > > /Users/hawk/bk_clients/blue aardvark/blue_aardvark____001.dhbk > /Users/hawk/bk_clients/pink panther/pink_panther_____001.dhbk > /Users/hawk/bk_clients/super chicken/super_chicken____005.dhbk > /Users/hawk/bk_clients/test5/test5____________001.dhbk > > which was obtained with a shell command and ls on OSX > > Using replaceText() to replace ^/Users/hawk/bk_clients/ with empty, I get > > blue aardvark/blue_aardvark____001.dhbk > /Users/hawk/bk_clients/pink panther/pink_panther_____001.dhbk > /Users/hawk/bk_clients/super chicken/super_chicken____005.dhbk > /Users/hawk/bk_clients/test5/test5____________001.dhbk > > That is, the ^ is only being applied to the variable as a whole, rather > than to each line. > > Does this have to do with how livecode and OSX delimit lines? > > -- > Dr. 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 _______________________________________________ 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
