Subject Re: Editor query From Rob Rickard <rob@nospam.calculation.com.au> Date Fri, 17 Jul 2020 21:32:47 -0400 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started Hi Tim Worked it out thank you. Regards Rob Tim Ward Wrote: > On 17/07/2020 06:05, Rob Rickard wrote: > > Hi All > > Wondering if anyone can help me. > > i am trying to use the editor in my program to make it look better. > > At the moment i am using entryfields and at the end of the entryfields i add " %0A". > > i need to add these to the entryfield to send in a text message. > > The entryfield method works ie trim(entryfield.value)+" %0A" but i am struggling to get the same results from the editor. > > ideally i want something that resembles the editor layout. The result i am getting is just 1 continually line. > > > > Regards Rob > > > Hi Rob, > > I use an editor object to view a list of text and then copy this to a > file object in the background to process the list line by line. I did > use to do this in the editor directly by selecting a line and then using > the copy to clipboard functionality of the editor but it was patchy and > missed lines sometimes. > > *** Copy text in editor window to a file for processing *** > >        Editor_csv = new File() >        If Editor_csv.exists("Editor.csv") >           Editor_csv.delete("Editor.csv") >        Endif >        Editor_csv.create("Editor.csv", "RW") >        Editor_csv.puts(form.container3.editor1.value) > > then to process > > Do While NOT Editor_csv.eof() >     cText = trim(Editor_csv.gets()) >     ** process line > Enddo