For some time I have been cleaning emails for filing in our filemaker database. 

For this, the users have added to a substitute field all text that they wanted removed from and email, separated by "//". 

Then I used @comment custom function https://www.briandunning.com/cf/851 to remove the text blocks from the email text. Somehow this stopped working in fm 18.

I tried to find out where it errors but to no avail. I was also thinking about putting each block of text into individual records and then creating an array from this or loop through the email using while but I am a little lost on how to do this. 

Would anyone be able to help please?

35 minutes ago, cat traveller said:

I used @comment custom function https://www.briandunning.com/cf/851 to remove the text blocks from the email text. Somehow this stopped working in fm 18.

I see no reason why the function shouldn't work the same way in v.18. Can you post a file showing the problem?

 

Thank you so much for the feedback. In attach an example. The idea would be to put blocks of text into the // dividers. Then the block of text is removed. This used to work great before... Thank you.

SubstituteValues.fmp12

I see no difference between versions.

AFAICT, the problem is with the paragraph separators in your data. I don't have time to investigate this more thoroughly, but when I replaced them manually (see record #2 in the attached file), I got the expected result.

I would guess that you are pasting the data from an external source that uses the line feed character Char(10) as the paragraph separator, instead of carriage return Char(13).

 

SubstituteValues.fmp12

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