Wortz, Charles
CWortz at tea.state.tx.us
Mon Apr 28 08:38:31 CDT 2003
John, You sure are giving us some easy ones to answer. <grin> Set up a loop to search through the old string for the desired character. If desired character not found, append character to new string and continue searching. If desired character found, then insert desired substring into new string and continue searching. Charles Wortz Software Development Division Texas Education Agency 1701 N. Congress Ave Austin, TX 78701-1494 512-463-9493 CWortz at tea.state.tx.us -----Original Message----- From: John W. Colby [mailto:jcolby at ColbyConsulting.com] Sent: Monday 2003 Apr 28 08:28 To: AccessD Subject: [AccessD] Using the pipe character in strings Long ago (in a galaxy far far away) I remember looking at the open source libs from Microsoft. They used the pipe symbol | to insert information into a string. Does anyone know how they accomplished this feat? In short, I need to have a string of text with dates inserted in various places. "Blah blah blah Date blah blah Date" etc. Of course, being the "reusable code" kinda guy I am, I want to do it with a pair of tables with the main text going in the parent and the dates (or pointers to controls) going into the child. Pull out the parent text string, start replacing the | with child records (dates, or contents of controls on forms). Has anyone done this kind of thing? John W. Colby Colby Consulting www.ColbyConsulting.com