Parsing "<"anything in between replaced"/>"

[lance123]

Hi To All,

I am trying to parse some files into another format.

It would really help if I could use a replace function that would search for a start occurence and an end occurence that could be defined and then replace anything in between with defined text.

I found the following function

SubstituteRange ( text; beginString; endString; replaceString ) at the following url http://www.briandunning.com/cf/122 (ps thanks to brian for all his cool functions)

But cannot get it to work! Any help would be much appreciated

Thanks,

Lance

[Ender]

Works fine for me.

[Lee Smith]

I also tested this one a few weeks ago, and it worked for me too.

Maybe you can attach a sample of the text that isn't working for you, and maybe we can see what is not working better..

Lee

[lance123]

Hi Ender,

How did I know I was going to get that as a response! : )

I have cut and paste the function 3-4 times changed various bits. The best I can get is it removes the search start text and the search end text along with anything in between. No replace is happening.

Any thoughts would be much appreciated, I can't for the life of me see anything I am putting in wrong. : (

Thanks,

Lance

[Ender]

Ah, there is an error in that CF. I had just tried it with an empty replacement string so I didn't see it (it helps to know what you're having trouble with.)

This is the fix:

...

Case(

lenBegin > 0 and lenEnd > 0 and ptBegin > 0 and ptEnd > lenEnd;

modText & replaceString & SubstituteRange(remainText; beginString; endString; replaceString);

text))

[lance123]

Hi Lee,

I am happy to post a file that has screen shots of what I am doing. It may give further info. I may be doing somthing really basic wrong.

Thanks,

Lance

Example.pdf

[lance123]

Hey Ender,

Just testing now and seems to be working great!!

Thanks so much ; )