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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> filepro-list@lists.celestial.com<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Thu, May 26, 2011 11:12:32 AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: edits help<BR></FONT><BR>----- Original Message -----<BR>> From: "Linda Gray" <<A href="mailto:lc_gray@yahoo.com" ymailto="mailto:lc_gray@yahoo.com">lc_gray@yahoo.com</A>><BR><BR>> I need to convert the ' to ' or %27 using an edit.<BR>> <BR>> I'm not good at defining edits and sure would appreciate some help.<BR>> <BR>> I need to replace the ' with it's HTML equivalent before writing out<BR>> ajax script that uses ' for strings and have names with ' in them.<BR><BR>So you need to URLescape an ASCII string; that's your end goal?<BR><BR>My snap reaction is "you don't want to do that with an edit, because
you<BR>can't guarantee how many characters you'll have to replace, and you'll run<BR>out of space". You *probably* want to write code to do that, as difficult<BR>as it is to handle functions in filePro.<BR><BR>Cheers,<BR>-- jra<BR>-- <BR>Jay R. Ashworth Baylink <A href="mailto:jra@baylink.com" ymailto="mailto:jra@baylink.com">jra@baylink.com</A><BR>Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100<BR>Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII<BR>St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647
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