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.)
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Kenneth Brody
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