Another thing to consider is the characters are not in any specific crder. It could be cfacded or anything else.
If is use a repeat for each char and the variable as a counter that resets every three times then I only need to make one pass through to make the changes. But there might be a faster way. John Balgenorth On Sep 26, 2014, at 11:31 PM, JB <sund...@pacifier.com> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
