quoting text question.

[stefangs]

i've accidentally poseted this in 'define fields', so here it is again:

i'm trying to come up with a way to quote text. i've done the following:

SetField

SetField [quoteText, Substitute(quoteText, "

[stefangs]

thanks, i'll give that a try.

[Chuck]

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Originally posted by stefangs:

i've accidentally poseted this in 'define fields', so here it is again:

i'm trying to come up with a way to quote text. i've done the following:

SetField

SetField [quoteText, Substitute(quoteText, "

[stefangs]

i've now tried setting up a looping script, but hit a dead end with the following script:

SetField [storeText, origText]

SetField

Loop

SetField

[Chuck]

I'm not sure yet what to do about the speed issue, but you could get around the punctuation issue by taking a look at characters instead of words.

Take a look at these two calcs:

LeftWords( Text_Field, 1 )

Left( Text_Field, Position( Text_Field, " ", 1, 1 ) - 1 )

These two calcs return the same informaiton if there is no punctuation after the word (like a period or a comma). But for the text "one, two", the first calc returns "one" and the second calc returns "one,".

To get the length of the current (i.e., last) line is a bit more complex:

Length( Text_Field ) - Position( Text_Field, "

[stefangs]

thanks chuck!

i'll delve into this one!