[Gambas-user] Parsing error with Replace$/Instr

[R. Stormo]

Richard Terry-2 wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 03:59:21 pm Rob wrote:
>> On Saturday 12 January 2008 20:08, richard terry wrote:
>> > Here is some for demo purposes of my code, which bombs with the
>> > error message: "Bad character constant in string".
>> >
>> > sResult = Replace$(alltext, "\plain\f3\fs24 \par }",
>> > "</body></html>")
>>
>> You need to change all your "\"'s into "\\"'s.  Gambas interpolates
>> character constants, such as "\n" for newline, in strings.
> 
> That seems like catch22 to me, ie want Gambas to repace the string
> 
> Doo you mean I have to do it first as replace all "\" with "\\" and then 
> replace the resultant string with what I want, 
> 
> or are you saying it is impossible to do in code?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Richard
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this should do the trick.

Replace$(TextBox1.Text, "\\plain\\f3\\fs24 \\par }", "</body></html>") 



Regards R. Stormo


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