Detecting If Character Is Tab, Cr, Lf

[Noggin the Nog]

Tied in with my macro in the "capitalize first letter" post, I have been trying to detect a tab, carriage return and line feed in a selected block of text spanning several lines using the If Variable statement. This would be used going through the block of text one character at a time eg If Variable %T3% = tab, cr or lf where %T3% is one character.

 

I found a way to enter the code to detect a tab by very devious means but have been unable to detect cr and lf. Anyone have ideas how to detect all three?

[Nicolas]

maybe you could use the Variable Set to ASCII Char command to initialize a string variable with the character you're looking for and then compare this variable with yours (%T3%)

 

you should easily find a complete ASCII table but if I remember :

ASCII (decimal) code for TAB is 10

ASCII (decimal) code for Carriage Return is 13

ASCII (decimal) code for Line Feed is 10

 

never tried that so I can't tell you if it really works

[Noggin the Nog]

Hi Nicolas,

 

Yup, the ASCII conversion did the trick thanks. I've never had occasion to use ASCII. I just converted %T3% to its ascii equivalent integer %N3% then added the condition, If Variable N3 = 9 etc. I can easily modify my macro for any common delimiter that is likely to appear before text.