mattyo

I'm trying to backslash out some commas in a textfile in js in such a way that outputting the string will give me something a messagebox likes. For example, if x is a string "foo, bar" I want outlet(0,x) to give me "foo,bar".

if I change the second line of the function to:

I can't do a search/replace in the file I'm working on & just fix it from there. Any recommendations?

Never mind -- it works if you use readline() instead of readstring(). Go figure. Leaving this here for the record...

I'm trying to backslash out some commas in a textfile in js in such a way that outputting the string will give me something a messagebox likes.  For example, if x is a string "foo, bar" I want outlet(0,x) to give me "foo,bar".  

   var x =  file.readstring(100);
    var y = x.replace(",",",")
    post(y, "n");
    outlet(0,y);
}

    var y = x.replace(",","\,")
       //seemed like a fine thing to try

I can't do a search/replace in the file I'm working on & just fix it from there.  Any recommendations?

Never mind -- it works if you use readline() instead of readstring().  Go figure.  Leaving this here for the record...
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comma-backslash in javascript