Thanks, Kay! The problem is there are no delimiters. It is a string of only chars A to F and there are no spaces etc.
John Balgenorth On Sep 26, 2014, at 11:19 PM, Kay C Lan <lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
