try \s+ \s replaces space with space. \s+ does a greedy replace where it tries to replace as many of the same token as it can at one time, so it'll grab all the consecutive whitespace and replace it with space.
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 9:48 AM, Bob Sneidar <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all. > > In a regex expression, “\s" is supposed to work for white space. Hows come > then, given that myVar contains "Availability BatteryRechargeTime > BatteryStatus Caption Chemistry”: > > put replaceText(myVar, "\s", space) into myVar > > leaves myVar unchanged? > > Bob S > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
