Assuming tBigList contains your data and it is a tab separated list. set the itemDelimiter to tab repeat for each item tSearchThis in tBigList if (char 3 of tSearchThis = "D") then put "+" into char 3 of tSearchThis end if put tSearchThis & tab after tNewList end repeat --remove the trailing tab put word 1 to -1 of tNewList into tNewList set the itemDelimiter to comma
tNewList should now be your corrected list HTH On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 12:26 PM, JB <sund...@pacifier.com> wrote: > I want to replace every third character in > a text string if it is a certain character. So > lets say I have a list of characters there > range from A thru F and the list is possibly > 10,000 characters long. > > I want to check every third character in the > list and if it is a D then I want to change it > to a +. > > I can probably do it with a repeat and use a > variable for a counter that resets every three > times and then check the character when the > counter gets to three but I was wondering if it > could be done faster somehow. > > John Balgenorth > > _______________________________________________ > 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
