Re: request for string functions
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texte = FWIW, Me Too! :) Brian B. Burton BOFH - Department of Redundancy Department --------------------------------------------------------------- MMT Solutions - Specializing in Online Shopping Solutions 973-808-8644 http://www.safecommerce.com ---------- >From: Peter Ostry
>To: WebDNA-Talk@smithmicro.com >Subject: request for string functions >Date: Thu, May 7, 1998, 8:09 AM >>(Brian) >>Some examples of email addresses that it stopped on: >> ESTUCIA@.IX.NETCOM.COM >> GARJ 5409@aol.com >> bdunn@ewu >> aol.pizzagarib.com > >At this point I want to line out once more: >To reduce errors in mail addresses it is required to check the user input >as accurate as possible. Please, we really nee more sophisticated string >functions in WebCat to check user input like email address more easy. > >A suggestion - with the following additional functions WebCat could handle >nearly all situations: >---------- > [FINDSTRING source=[MyString]&find=hello] -> number > returns the starting position of hello in the variable [MyString] >---------- > [INSERTSTRING source=[MyString]&insert=hello&start=15] > Inserts hello into the variable [MyString] at position 15 >---------- > [DELETESTRING source=[MyString]&start=15&end=20] > deletes characters 15 to 20 from variable [MyString] >---------- > [REPLACESTRING source=[MyString]&oldstring=hello&newstring=welcome] > replaces all occurences of hello with welcome > it should be possible to set newstring to (= nothing) >---------- > >Peter > >__________________________________________ >Peter Ostry - po@ostry.com - www.ostry.com >Ostry & Partner - Ostry Internet Solutions >Auhofstrasse 29 A-1130 Vienna Austria >fon ++43-1-8777454 fax ++43-1-8777454-21 >
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FWIW, Me Too! :) Brian B. Burton BOFH - Department of Redundancy Department --------------------------------------------------------------- MMT Solutions - Specializing in Online Shopping Solutions 973-808-8644 http://www.safecommerce.com ---------- >From: Peter Ostry >To: WebDNA-Talk@smithmicro.com >Subject: request for string functions >Date: Thu, May 7, 1998, 8:09 AM >>(Brian) >>Some examples of email addresses that it stopped on: >> ESTUCIA@.IX.NETCOM.COM >> GARJ 5409@aol.com >> bdunn@ewu >> aol.pizzagarib.com > >At this point I want to line out once more: >To reduce errors in mail addresses it is required to check the user input >as accurate as possible. Please, we really nee more sophisticated string >functions in WebCat to check user input like email address more easy. > >A suggestion - with the following additional functions WebCat could handle >nearly all situations: >---------- > [FINDSTRING source=[MyString]&find=hello] -> number > returns the starting position of hello in the variable [MyString] >---------- > [INSERTSTRING source=[MyString]&insert=hello&start=15] > Inserts hello into the variable [MyString] at position 15 >---------- > [DELETESTRING source=[MyString]&start=15&end=20] > deletes characters 15 to 20 from variable [MyString] >---------- > [REPLACESTRING source=[MyString]&oldstring=hello&newstring=welcome] > replaces all occurences of hello with welcome > it should be possible to set newstring to (= nothing) >---------- > >Peter > >__________________________________________ >Peter Ostry - po@ostry.com - www.ostry.com >Ostry & Partner - Ostry Internet Solutions >Auhofstrasse 29 A-1130 Vienna Austria >fon ++43-1-8777454 fax ++43-1-8777454-21 >
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