1. Re: [E - 1 to 2 Jun 1997] I need help! (again :>)
Joseph Martin <jam at MAILHUB.EXIS.NET> writes...
E::>I'm writing a program to read in a file and change certain pieces of
::>text to something else. For instance in the file I would change all
::>instances of '1' to '2'. However when I try to "find" the text I want
::>to change in my sample file it returns 0. Can anyone help?
E::>trace(1)
::>? file[1]
::>for i = 1 to length(file) do
::> n = find("1", file[i])
Your problem is right here: find() looks for its first
argument as a member of the sequence represented by its second
argument. A string in double quotes is a sequence. You're
actually looking for the sequence {49} in the line. What you
want to do instead is
n = find('1', file[i])
which will look for the _atom_ 49 in the line.
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Jeff Zeitlin jeff.zeitlin at execnet.com
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