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- Tue Aug 26, 2008 9:35 pm
- Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
- Topic: Importing text file
- Replies: 5
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Found another cool method
In searching for batch text conversion on the Macintosh I found that you can use the textutil utility, inlcuded in Mac OSX 10.4 or better, for converting text from one format to another. The terminal string I used, which worked great and was tons quicker, was: find . -name *.txt -exec textutil -conv...
- Fri Aug 15, 2008 4:41 pm
- Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
- Topic: Importing text file
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3838
That did it.
BvG - your suggestion worked.
Thanks.
Thanks.
- Fri Aug 15, 2008 3:25 pm
- Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
- Topic: Importing text file
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3838
Thanks Mark
That did help in that it did get rid of some extra characters, but the extra spaces remain. Very strange issue. I have tried different encodings and most of them show the added spaces except the Unicode 5 (Little Endian). However, even with that selected the "put" command still adds the spaces. Any ...
- Thu Aug 14, 2008 10:01 pm
- Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
- Topic: Importing text file
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3838
Importing text file
Setup - Mac OS X 10.5.4 Revolution Studio 2.9.0 Something strange is happening when I open a text file (saved as Windows TXT) and put the text of the file into a field (set to use Courier 12pt). The text gets placed okay, but there is a space in between each letter of each word. Very bizarre behavio...