Thanks! John Balgenorth
On Sep 30, 2014, at 4:12 PM, Bob Sneidar <bobsnei...@iotecdigital.com> wrote: > Use repeat with i - 1 to the number of characters of myString step 3 > > Bob S > > > On Sep 27, 2014, at 24:23 , JB <sund...@pacifier.com> wrote: > >> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
