>I have a large rtf file (~300KB) with a bunch of "slugs" in it. What I mean by slugs are variables surrounded by "<<" and ">>". So the file would look something like :
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>blah blah blah <
> blah blah
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>I use filetostr to put the entire file into a string then I use strtran to find and replace the slugs with values. The problem is that strtran doesn't seem to replacing all the slugs. It will replace some of them but not all even when the slugs are exactly the same.
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You can always use the VBScript.RegExp object if you can't figure out how to use STRTRAN():cMyString = FILETOSTR('MyFileToXlate.RTF')
oRegExp = CREATEOBJ('VBScript.RegExp')
oRegExp.Global = .t.
oRegExp.IgnoreCase = .t.
oRegExp.Pattern = '<<SomeString>>'
cMyString = oRegExp.Replace(cMyString,'what I want for this slug')
oRegExp.Pattern = '<<Another Slug>>'
cMyString = oRegExp.Replace(cMyString,'what I want for this paticular slug')
=STRTOFILE(cMyString,'MyXlatedFile.RTF')It's part of WSH version 2.0 or later; see the refs in my sig block for details. You can get fancy and use regular expressions, to the extent of coding up something that strips out your 'slug' and macro-expands the variable referenced by the slug content - you'll have to write this for yourself.
