OpenEuphoria

2. Re: I need help FAST!!

• Posted by Ray & Debbie Smith <smithr at IX.NET.AU> Jan 12, 2001
• 406 views
• Last edited Jan 13, 2001

Hi Mike,

I'm sure everyone is willing to wait for 2 days!

Ray


----- Original Message -----
From: Jack Cat <catjackus at YAHOO.COM>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 6:37 PM
Subject: I need help FAST!!


> Everyone, stop what you're doing right now and listen
> to this.
>
> I have being coding all night at a Euphoria app after
> reading a mail about creating euAllegro for DOS.
> This app is ready, except for one part, the last lines
> of code, wich I can't write.
> I can't write these last few lines, this last routine,
> because any minute now my new girlfriend will be
> knocking at my door. She will sleep over for two days,
> and she does not allow me to turn my computer on, let
> alone code. She gets pissed if she thinks I give my
> computer more attention than her, and I can't blaim
> her, would it be nice for me to code while my
> girlfirend sits and does nothing after not having seen
> me in half a month?
> I can't code this last routine myself because I tried
> it and ran into errors wich would take me too much
> time to fix.
>
> People, if you help me, if you write me this routine,
> I will paste it into my code, bind an executable, and
> ship it to you right away. What app is this? I won't
> tell you what it is yet, it's gotta be a surprise, but
> I garantee you that you will be using Allegro, Crystal
> Space, Genesis3D, etc. in Euphoria on any platform
> IMMEDIATLY after downloading this app.
>
> The code I need is simple.
> I need code that accepts a sequence of files like
> this; {"test.txt","crap.ex", ...}
> It should also accept a sequence of keywords like
> this;
> {"key1","crapkey2","shitkeyword3", ...}
> and that finally will replace every keyword it finds
> in
> every file with Xs, ie. with "XXX", or whatever you
> want, it doesn't matter what it replaces it with,
> alsong as it replaces it.
>
> Confused?
> The code could look like this;
>
> procedure replace(sequence files, sequence words)
> -- replace words in every file with the wordsz found
> in -- 'words', and save result.
> end procedure
>
> Get it?
> I just need code that can replace, like VB's replace()
> function does, all occurences of these keywords with
> something else, doesn't matter what.
>
>
> If you understand what I mean, PLEASE help me out
> right away, so I can ship this app before my
> girlfriend gets here!!
>
>
> Mike The Spike
>
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