edits help

[Richard Kreiss]

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> Behalf Of Jeff Harrison
> Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 2:27 PM
> To: Linda Gray; filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Re: edits help
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> 
> > From: Linda Gray <lc_gray at yahoo.com>
> > To: Jay Ashworth <jra at baylink.com>; filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> > Sent: Thu, May 26, 2011 1:13:21 PM
> > Subject: Re: edits help
> >
> > i'm not worried about the length of the end string.  i need to replace
the '
> > with an html friendly string like the toHTML command does, except it
> >doesn't do
> >
> > the single quote.  it was suggested that i do it with an  edit.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: Jay Ashworth  <jra at baylink.com>
> > To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> > Sent:  Thu, May 26, 2011 11:12:32 AM
> > Subject: Re: edits help
> >
> > ----- Original  Message -----
> > > From: "Linda Gray" <lc_gray at yahoo.com>
> >
> > > I need to  convert the ' to ' or %27 using an edit.
> > >
> > > I'm not good at  defining edits and sure would appreciate some help.
> > >
> > > I need to  replace the ' with it's HTML equivalent before writing
> > > out ajax script  that uses ' for strings and have names with ' in
them.
> >
> > So you need to  URLescape an ASCII string; that's your end goal?
> >
> > My snap reaction is "you  don't want to do that with an edit, because
> > you can't guarantee how many  characters you'll have to replace, and
> > you'll run out of space".  You  *probably* want to write code to do
> > that, as difficult as it is to handle  functions in filePro.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > -- jra
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> 
> I would suggest that you NOT use an edit for this as well.  I don't think
edits
> work very well when you don't know how many of the "from" characters
> may appear in the string.
> 
> I would suggest doing this in processing - I think what you want to do is
> replace every occurance of chr("39") with "&#39;" that is the "html
> equivalent".
> (not url escape - I assume that is not your goal)
> 
> Does filepro have a "replace" function?  I don't see one in 5.0 anyway.
Xlate
> seems to work on a character by character basis, so I don't think you can
use
> that.  I think you will need to write this using mid and instr.

SEE TOHTML()

Richard

> 
> I suppose Ken will now show us how to do this with an edit. :-)
> 
> Jeff Harrison
> jeffaharrison at yahoo.com
> Author of JHExport and JHImport
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