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Bruce Robertson <[log in to unmask]>
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Macintosh Scripting Systems <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Mon, 30 Jan 2006 08:31:17 -0800
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> Hi, all -
>
> I may be up against one of the string limits or variable limits
> discussed
> long ago in the macscrpt archives, but I've gotten fuzzy on what to
> watch
> out for, and the archives don't seem to address the question
> clearly enough
> for me to grasp.
>
> I've generated a list of strings, some of them a few thousand
> characters,
> from a FMP database, using "set stringList to cell "text" of every
> record".
> I'm cleaning up the text to convert to html, using Acme Script
> Widgets to
> replace illegal characters with escape characters.

Which version of FileMaker? There are easier ways to do this entirely within
Filemaker.

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