Re: Long strings in CI ///

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

I have made the program and I just tried it on your example.
It failed, but I'll work on it and get back to you.





Reply to note from Harry Binswanger
 Wed, 01 Dec

2010 09:09:15 -0500


Harry:


> As to my routine, I don't see how it could fail, provided the

> separator (%% in my example) is completely unique.


I still can't visualize it. Let's take a concrete example. Suppose

we have a document consisting entirely of the last paragraph of

Lincoln's Second Inaugural, thus:


-- existing text --

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the

right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish

the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him

who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan,
to

do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among

ourselves and with all nations.

-- end existing --


We want to replace that entire text with the text of the Gettysburg

Address, thus:


-- replacement text --

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this

continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the

proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a

great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so

conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great

battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that

field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives

that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper

that we should do this. But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate,
we

cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men,

living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above

our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor

long remember, what we say here. But it can never forget what they

did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to

the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so

nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the

great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we
take

increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full

measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead

shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall
have

a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the

people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

-- end replacement --


How would your procedure do that?


BTW, I just used BIGCHG (12/1/10 revision) to do this and it worked

fine.


(Obviously it only makes sense to use a routine like BIGCHG where

the subject document contains multiple instances of the search

string. To replace a single instance, cut-and-paste is more

efficient. The above example is for testing purposes.)


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Carl Distefano

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Harry Binswanger
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