Title: RE: Search/Replace Func Characters?>Brian:
>> Unfortunately Robert, I've never loaded or used the U2 files...
>> so I can't decode your macro.>Robert:
>Ok, let's see -- think think think -- what to do? Hey, I've got it! Install
>U2! That will work.And of course you're right. But...the way I use Xy is very different from most everybody who uses the U2. Almost everything I do is related to file conversion and clean-up, and the copy editing I do doesn't take much in the way of them fancy-pants word-processing tricks you city folk like so much. The truth is, I keep looking into Xy4 but I keep not finding a good reason to put up with the things about it that annoy me. Xy3 is bare-bones, uncluttered, and exactly what I need.
And there's enough of a learning curve for U2 (I mean, what the heck does "helpkey" mean, and decode is easy enough to say but...) that going through the process in order to decode a macro...well, it just hasn't been an incentive yet. Maybe I give it a try for fun though.
>XS means eXtractString. It's a parsing mechanism, for tearing strings apart into left$s, mid$s, and right$s.
>Consult the manual for more.
>It's one of the most fundamental XPL tools.There's a HUGE amount of Xy that I've never used.
>What version of Xy3 do you use?
3.55
-B.H.