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06-16-2008, 04:17 PM

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Isis

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I need some BASIC help

hi,

i took basic way back in community college and haven't looked at it since...
now i'm working on a little project for myself and am stuck.

btw, i'm using basic cuz it's simple for my application, and was the fastest thing i could download on my computer

anyway

lets say i have a file with a letter template

Quote:

Dear <User Name>

Thank you very much for the <doodad>.

please

What i want to do in BASIC is to go into the file, create string variables for the <tags> then print the letter to a new file.

for example

Code:

input "username";username$
input "doodad";doodad$

so if i put username = isis and doodad = million dollar donation the letter would read

Quote:

Dear isis

Thank you very much for the million dollar donation.

any suggestions...

btw, i'm using liberty basic, which is identical to Qbasic ....

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06-16-2008, 04:46 PM

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weblord

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this is their official mailing list HTH
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/libertybasic/

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06-16-2008, 04:47 PM	· #3
Isis Think for yourself Location: Az Trader Rating: (6) Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 954 NP$: 104.00 (Donate)	i know i know....but finding what i'm looking for is like a needle in a hay stack... i even posted the question there __________________ ----------------------------------------------- Great Deals on Cellular Phones

06-17-2008, 09:15 AM

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tres

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Originally Posted by Isis

i know i know....but finding what i'm looking for is like a needle in a hay stack...
i even posted the question there

basic does not have a regular_expresion so you will have to use instr to find the start of the string to replace, i.e.

Code:

instr(txt$, '<name'>)

I don't remember how to replace strings in basic but in in perl, you can use something like

Code:

$string =~ s/regex/replacement/g;

The whole thing could be done in a few lines of perl or php.. which are much better for these types of task.

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