edits help
Linda Gray
lc_gray at yahoo.com
Thu May 26 11:41:26 PDT 2011
toHTML doesn't work for '
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From: Richard Kreiss <rkreiss at verizon.net>
To: Jeff Harrison <jeffaharrison at yahoo.com>; Linda Gray <lc_gray at yahoo.com>;
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Subject: RE: edits help
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> > 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>
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> > 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 "'" 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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