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Re: Today's Question - poke a character in a string
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Re: Today's Question - poke a character in a string


  • Subject: Re: Today's Question - poke a character in a string
  • From: "Arthur J. Knapp" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 13:21:24 -0400

> Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 01:12:32 -0700
> Subject: Re: Today's Question - poke a character in a string
> From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>


>> set MyLongString to (characters 1 thru (CurrentIndex-1) of MyLongString) &
>> ">" & (characters (CurrentIndex+1) thru end of MyLongString) as string


> set MyLongString to (text 1 thru (CurrentIndex - 1) of MyLongString) &
> ">" & (text (CurrentIndex +1 ) thru end of MyLongString)
>
> Of course it doesn't look quite so arduous if you write that as:
>
> set s to text 1 thru (c - 1) of s & ">" & text (c + 1) thru -1 of s

It also doesn't look so bad thru the judicious use of the line
continuation character, (which I have used ` to represent):

set MyLongString to "" & `
characters 1 thru (CurrentIndex - 1) of MyLongString & `
">" & `
characters (CurrentIndex + 1) thru end of MyLongString

set MyLongString to "" & `
text 1 thru (CurrentIndex - 1) of MyLongString & `
">" & `
text (CurrentIndex + 1) thru end of MyLongString

set s to `
text 1 thru (c - 1) of s & `
">" & `
text (c + 1) thru -1 of s

set s to `
s's text 1 thru (c - 1) & `
">" & `
s's text (c + 1) thru -1

tell (s) to set s to `
text 1 thru (c - 1) & `
">" & `
text (c + 1) thru -1

;-) OK, whether or not it looks bad is a matter of opinion. ;-)


{ Arthur J. Knapp, of <http://www.STELLARViSIONs.com>
a r t h u r @ s t e l l a r v i s i o n s . c o m
}
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