Re: Test for multiples a character in a paragraph- Tex-Edit or > OSAX
Re: Test for multiples a character in a paragraph- Tex-Edit or > OSAX
- Subject: Re: Test for multiples a character in a paragraph- Tex-Edit or > OSAX
- From: "Marc K. Myers" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 09:36:26 -0500
- Organization: [very little]
Shane Stanley wrote:
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Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 15:22:27 +1100
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Subject: Re: Test for multiples a character in a paragraph- Tex-Edit or
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OSAX
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From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
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To: AS lists <email@hidden>
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On 27/1/01 10:06 AM +1000, Xandra Lee, email@hidden, wrote:
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> I need to look at each paragraph seperately, and if there's MORE than
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> one tab character (ascii 9), I need to replace all But the first with
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> ascii 11 (verttab).
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You could "set every character where it is aTab to verttab", and then loop
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through paragraphs, using "set character 1 of paragraph i where it = verttab
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to aTab".
The logic is impeccable and much better than my solution, but the syntax
of the second statement won't work in Tex-Edit Plus. Instead, as you
loop through the paragraphs you'd say:
set foundIt to (search paragraph i looking for vertTab)
if foundIt then
set selection to aTab
end if
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