replace text question

[Toren]

Hello all,
I wanted to see if I could use swfkit to replace all carriage return characters "\r" in a text file with the html tag "<BR>". So I edited the notepad.skp (the swfkit notepad src demo) and added this code to the open button to see what happened.

trace(s.replace("\r", "<BR>"))

The file I opened "test.txt" was simply as follows

test
1
2
3
4


the trace returned

test<BR>1
2
3
4


I tried replacing the "t"s instead and I got the same thing, it only replaces the first "\r" or "t" it finds and quits.
What am I doing wrong or is there another way to do what I am trying to do?
Thanks

[GKFC]

?

put it in a loop that iterates and replaces \r with <BR> until the EOF (end of file)?

not sure how you would code it, but it looks like your code is only looking for the first \r and replacing it with <BR>

[Toren]

I tried an off hand loop

var re = new RegExp("(\r)","ig");
while(re.test(s) = true)
{
s.replace("\r","<BR>");
}
trace(s);

i'm not sure if thats how a loop's done
anyway this only caused the trace to freeze.
i'll do some more research on loops and give it another try.
thanks for the input

[Toren]

;D YEAH!!! ;D
I figured it out!
By placing this code in "Open"

var vr1 = s.lastIndexOf("<BR>");
while(vr1 >= 0)
{
r1 = s.replace("<BR>","\r");
s = s.replace() +r1;
trace(s);
vr1 = s.lastIndexOf("<BR>");
}

right before the

FlashPlayer.setVariable ("iArea", s);

it replaced all the <BR> with \r so when editing it uses the normal \r.
Then in "Save" I put this code

var vr1 = /\r/gi.test(textArea);
while(vr1 == true)
{
r1 = textArea.replace("\r","<BR>");
textArea = textArea.replace() +r1;
trace(textArea);
vr1 = /\r/gi.test(textArea);
}

right before the

if (path == null)

so when saving it saved it back using the <BR>.
It took a while but I got it. Thanks GKFC for the loop tip.

I had to use the "s.lastIndexOf("<BR>")" instead of "/\r/gi.test(textArea)" because for some reason unknown to myself it only looped 5 time and quit when using the "/\r/gi.test(textArea)" on on the "Open". Don't know why but it did and I traced it, tried various methods but every time it only did 5 loops and quit. Oh well I got it to work.
Thanks again all.

[GKFC]

;D

nice one.

so my cheque is in the mail then?

[SWFKit]

Hi,

The

var s = "1\r\n2\r\n3\r\n";
trace(s.replace(/\r\n/gi, "<br>"));

can also work.

The output is: 1<br>2<br>3<br>