edits help

[Kenneth Brody]

On 5/26/2011 5:31 PM, Jeff Harrison wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----
>
>> From: Kenneth Brody<kenbrody at spamcop.net>
>> To: Jeff Harrison<jeffaharrison at yahoo.com>
>> Cc: Linda Gray<lc_gray at yahoo.com>; filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
>> Sent: Thu, May 26, 2011 2:47:19 PM
>> Subject: Re: edits help
>>
>> On 5/26/2011 2:26 PM, Jeff Harrison wrote:
> [snip]
>
>>>
>>> I suppose Ken will now show us  how to do this with an edit. :-)
>>
>>       { @ |  (!"'"!<&39;>) | * }
>>
>> Of course, you still may need to pass the  original string through TOHTML()
>> first, to take care of the other  characters.  (Or extend the above edit to
>> handle the other characters  as well.)
>
> Great stuff.  I have got to remember the @

Pop quiz time.  I hope everyone has been keeping good notes...

Why does the above edit fail on fields with an apostrophe, if the "@" part 
is left off?

> Thanks.

You're welcome.

-- 
Kenneth Brody