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Re: Newbie blues (was Remove spaces)
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Re: Newbie blues (was Remove spaces)


  • Subject: Re: Newbie blues (was Remove spaces)
  • From: Kai <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2003 07:59:37 +0100

on Thu, 03 Jul 2003 00:58:13 -0700, Andrew Oliver wrote:

> On 6/29/03 9:15 AM, "Kai" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> on Sun, 29 Jun 2003 15:50:49 +0200, Bernard Azancot wrote:
>>
>>> More details:
>>> Open a Filemaker export tab-return file with TE+.
>>> Search all the (french) phone numbers appearing as "xx xx xx xx".
>>> Change them to "xxxxxxxx"
>>> Re-import the file to FM.
>>> Text sample:
>
> Of course, this begs the question of why bother to use TE+ at all and not
> just do it all in Filemaker:

Given the facts that eventually emerged, that's how I would do it. However,
part of my reason for pursuing the TE+ method at the time was that Bernard
also wrote:

> The solution could be to write a FM replace script, but then I am never
> going to improve my AS skill ;-)

Still - glad to see we got there in the end... ;-)

--
Kai
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