clye@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Christopher Lye) (05/12/89)
I just spent a good hour fiddling with both hypercard scripts and
the mail merge functions on Writenow 2.0 and MacWrite II which both use
similar format for their mail merges.
I am using a script routine that I got out of the Complete Hypercard
Book to WRITE the "name and address" field data to a text file. However,
the way data is entered into the Address stack there is a hard return
between NAME, STREET and STATE entries. Now when using the mail merge
functions on the two programs I mentioned they call for a TAB between
each of these variables/fields and a hard return between each
entry/record.
My question is that is there a script that will replace the hard returns
between each field into tabs and place a hard return between each
record. I am not a very experienced scripter so please excuse me if this
is something quite trivial.
An example would be:
Hypercard Entry --> Apple Computer [return]
20525 Mariani Avenue [return]
Cupertino, CA 95014[return]
Mail merge data format --> Apple Computer[tab]20525 Mariani Avenue[tab]
Cupertino, CA 95014 [return]
Any help from veteran scripters is much appreciated. Please E-mail
replies and I will post a summary of the replies.
Thanks,
Chris