Re: Long strings in CI ///

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

Carl,


You're right (as usual). I needed this for some HTML coding I'm doing,
which involves replacing short tags with longer ones. E.g.,:


replace: 


with: 

.................................

................................

......">


So it's not an all-purpose tool.


I could fairly easily modify it to be the all-purpose tool, but I'm too
busy to do that just now.


"t.x" is the name I chose for the test file containing, in the
case of your example, the original, shorter section from Lincoln. I
already have a lot of files named things like "test"
"tst" "t" and so on, so I wanted to give it a
non-overlapping name.


I was surprised that it took so long (5 seconds) to run--even with DX
freezing the display. Do you know why it wouldn't be faster?


Regards,

Harry







Reply to note from Harry Binswanger
 Wed, 01 Dec

2010 14:01:49 -0500


> Okay, it was dumb user error. It takes 5 seconds to run, but
it

> works. A limitation is that you have to take as the
"find"

> string, something that's fairly short. I took "With malice
".


Hmmm, I thought the idea was to replace one long string with
another

-- or, rather, to handle any combination of find and replace
strings

that's too long for the CMline. The need to use a short find string

is a crippling limitation, in my view. Also, I can't test your code

as it makes assumptions that do not apply to me -- e.g., the

existence of file T.X -- whazzat?) I tried running it once, but

XyWrite came crashing down. However, if it works for you,
Harry....


--

Carl Distefano

cld@xxxxxxxx




Harry Binswanger
hb@xxxxxxxx