RE: Forcing Paragraph Breaks on Results
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 1998
It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = Sometimes, being on the digest is kind of a pain 8^) Dave MacLea said: >[ConvertChars][fieldName][/ConvertChars] will do what you want.And PCS said: >This will work as long as the original text has carriage returns in it, >because it will convert those to HTML
tags. Not sure if this is what >you were originally asking for, but if so, then this is the correct >solution.Ken also said at some point: >A long time ago, PCS found a way to make [boldwords] put
tags around a >multi-character match string, so I see no reason why they cannot use a similar >technique to replace one match string with a different string ...Then Olin offered: >We use this to search a string for another string and replace with another >string. To use, create 2 include files as follows: > >=== begin includes/replaceString.inc=== >[math >show=f]ilen=[countchars][sOriginal][/countchars][/math][text]sTmp=[/text][ma >th show=f]iBInd=1[/math][math show=f]iEndx=1[/math][math >show=f]iFlen=[countchars][sFind][/countchars] Our users routinely paste long clippings into database fields - clippings with anywhere from 10 to 100 sentences per field. What I was asking to do is to force the insertion of a
break, say after every 10 sentences, but on the results/ displayed side, rather than including them in the database. Maybe it would be easier to insert them as part of the original [append]. . . ?Ken's (and now my) desire to have an additional mechanism like [boldwords] available to tag certain strings would be the most cherished solution, but in the meantime, I'll prolly give Olin's intricate [include] files a go.Sorry if my intentions weren't more clear from the start. Thanks very much to all!!-- [/dave] webmaster metropolitan community colleges kansas city, missouri http://www.kcmetro.cc.mo.us mailto:herriman@kcmetro.cc.mo.us
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Sometimes, being on the digest is kind of a pain 8^) Dave MacLea said: >
[convertchars][fieldName][/ConvertChars] will do what you want.And PCS said: >This will work as long as the original text has carriage returns in it, >because it will convert those to HTML
tags. Not sure if this is what >you were originally asking for, but if so, then this is the correct >solution.Ken also said at some point: >A long time ago, PCS found a way to make
[boldwords] put
tags around a >multi-character match string, so I see no reason why they cannot use a similar >technique to replace one match string with a different string ...Then Olin offered: >We use this to search a string for another string and replace with another >string. To use, create 2 include files as follows: > >=== begin includes/replaceString.inc=== >[math >show=f]ilen=
[countchars][sOriginal][/countchars][/math]
[text]sTmp=[/text][ma >th show=f]iBInd=1[/math][math show=f]iEndx=1[/math][math >show=f]iFlen=
[countchars][sFind][/countchars] Our users routinely paste long clippings into database fields - clippings with anywhere from 10 to 100 sentences per field. What I was asking to do is to force the insertion of a
break, say after every 10 sentences, but on the results/ displayed side, rather than including them in the database. Maybe it would be easier to insert them as part of the original [append]. . . ?Ken's (and now my) desire to have an additional mechanism like [boldwords] available to tag certain strings would be the most cherished solution, but in the meantime, I'll prolly give Olin's intricate [include] files a go.Sorry if my intentions weren't more clear from the start. Thanks very much to all!!-- [/dave] webmaster metropolitan community colleges kansas city, missouri http://www.kcmetro.cc.mo.us mailto:herriman@kcmetro.cc.mo.us
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