Edit request (was Re: Changing a fields edit type)

Kenneth Brody kenbrody at spamcop.net
Sun Jun 26 08:55:36 PDT 2016


On 6/24/2016 5:41 PM, scooter6 at gmail.com wrote:
> Is there a way to write the edit that it doesn't delete characters and move
> all other characters together?
> i.e.  If someone has   1234 Main St,Apt.123    I don't want the edit to
> make it  1234 Main StApt123
> Rather I'd like it to be  1234 Main St Apt 123
> My current edit    {!","! | !"."! | !"#"! | !"*"! | *}   would replace the
> special characters
> I know I won't be able to cure all input type mistakes but I'd rather have
> 2 spaces in some instances, rather than the words running together....

How about this?

     { ((!","! | !"."! | !"#"! | !"*"!) <" ">) | * }

This will "replace" any of those characters with a space.  (Or, keep the 
space which follows it, if there is one.)

-- 
Kenneth Brody


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