Qeditor text replacement

[Neil]

I have used REPLACE TEXT many times  (Successfully) in the past but now I've come across a problem replacing text in my current program. I am renaming a label used a lot of times & qeditor only renames some of them. I've tried it many times with the same result, my question, is there a limit as to how many can be renamed at any one time? I was implementing an idea that Dave came up with a couple of days ago, so it's his fault :bg

[jj2007]

How many times? I just tried with 370k and 76 items to be replaced, no problem.

[Neil]

One Hundred & Fifty (150)

[hutch--]

Neil,

The replace will work up to the limit of memory on your machine. I have used it on files over 100 megabyte.

[Neil]

I've just tried again & it's now working O.K. I'm a bit baffled why it wasn't working before. I'll try it again later & see what happens.

[dedndave]

sounds like user error to me, Neil   :P
perhaps case-sensitivity is the culprit

[Neil]

Dave, you could be right but that doesn't explain why it replaced 75% of text in the first pass through & when run again it replaced the remainder. One of life's little mysteries ::)
By the way your FlagTable method works a treat & I've found another part of the program that can use it :U

[hutch--]

Neil,

The algo does a number of things, if the replacement is the same length or shorter it simply allocates a buffer the same length as the selection, does the replacements them writes it back to the edit control. If the replacement is longer than the text being replaced it does a text count in the selection, calculates the extra length required and allocates a bigger bufffer first then it does the replacement. It will then run one of two replacement algos, a simple text replace or a whole word replace. In every case it only works on the complete selection and does the replace from beginning to end, there are no partial limitations with either algo.

[Neil]

Thanks for the explanation hutch. Can you clear up one final point, I was replacing a 4 character word with an 8 character one should I have used Normal Text Replace or Whole Word?

[hutch--]

Neil,

Whichever you need. They are two separate algos that perform different tasks.