Re: FLASH: Loading text files as an expression

[Helen Triolo]

Not sure what importing as an expression means, but yes, can convert the

hard returns to single-spacing instead of double-spacing by going

through the input string character by character and outputting

everything except ord(13)'s (carriage return, or ord(10)--linefeed,

since flash puts out a newline for both).  I set up the Sockman flash

site (http://i-technica.com/flashlist/sockman.html) to do that with this

code on the display buttons:


      Loop While (count <=length(readanswer))

            If (ord(substring(readanswer, count,1)) <> 13)

                  Set Variable: "answer" =

answer&substring(readanswer,count,1)

            End If

            Set Variable: "count" = count+1

      End Loop


but it really slows things down processing large text fields this way. 

It's the only way to get rid of flash's double-spacing though.


hth,

Helen

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Randy Anthony wrote:

> 

> Thanks for the help, but that's still not quite what I was looking for. I'm

> trying to pull the information from the file in as an expression, so I

> would have to format the text something like this:

>          "this is a test" & newline & "this is only a test"

> Instead of doing this:

>          This is a test

>          This is only a test

> Either I need to import it as an expression so I have more control over the

> formatting or is there a way to convert the hard returns to single spaces

> instead of double?


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