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I want to replace all text within in parentheses (including the parentheses) with a single space. I have tried assembling the matchExpression in advance and in line, and also escaping the parentheses just in case they are reserved in regex. Or do I need to enclose the matchExpression in something other than or in addition to, quotes?
on mouseUp
put empty into fld "f2"
put fld "fff" into FLUFFY
put 0 into CHEK
repeat until FLUFFY is empty
put char 1 of FLUFFY into FUR
delete char 1 of FLUFFY
switch FUR
case "("
put 1 into CHEK
break
case ")"
put 0 into CHEK
break
default
if CHEK < 1 then
put FUR after fld "f2"
else
--- do nix
end if
end switch
end repeat
end mouseUp
I tried replaceText but could not get that to work.
Try this.
"on mouseUp
put field 1 into tText
repeat with x = the number of chars of tText down to 0
if char x of tText is "(" or char x of tText is ")"
then
delete char x of tText
end if
end repeat
put tText
end mouseUp:
Um, jsburnett, that will certainly take out parenthesis, but that was only part of the equation posted.
first post wrote:
I want to replace all text within in parentheses (including the parentheses) with a single space.
I'm pretty sure you could do this easily with offset (character level to find the parenthesis and set up a marker for each) and replaceText (marker 1 to marker 2) in a fairly small repeat loop.
on mouseUp
put "" into field 2
put field 1 into theSource
repeat with x=1 to the number of characters of theSource
wait 5 ticks with messages
if character x of theSource is not "(" then
put character x of theSource after field 2
else
put offset(")",theSource) into blipMe
replace character x to blipMe of theSource with " " in theSource
next repeat
end if
end repeat
end mouseUp
on mouseUp
get fld "f1_fld"
put false into mySkip
repeat for each char C in it
if C = "(" then
put true into mySkip
put space after myRes -- the "single space"
else if C = ")" then
put false into mySkip
else if not mySkip then
put C after myRes
end if
end repeat
replace " " with " " in myRes -- optional, restores it to a nice text
put myRes into fld "f2_fld"
end mouseUp
;-)
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Possibly because I have a "thing" about doing everything inwith LiveCode as such.
Or, just possibly because it does NOT look like LiveCode, but much more like the type of computer languages I almost
completely turned my back on in 1993 (When I discovered HyperCard):
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I dunno why regex gets on your nerves Richmond, it is no more or less than a few plain english symbols and the command as Jacque put it is certainly shorter than anything else that popped in so far. Orders of magnitude faster as well I wager.
I keep meaning to get around to parsing it, but usually in the time it would take me to doing that, I've already figured out a (short enough) brute force method
Last edited by bogs on Sat Jun 12, 2021 9:27 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Replace text of any characters between parentheses with a space
OK: pause for 'evil' Richmond question:
Is that to be interpreted that EACH character between parentheses MUST be REPLACED with a SPACE?
(= as many SPACES as their are characters between parentheses.)
Or
that ALL characters between parentheses MUST be REPLACED with a SPACE?
(=1 SPACE regardless of length of string between parentheses.)
