Format String Help

[kloner]

Hi all,

I'm going crazy! I need to format a formula. I have a string that looks like this "a56c5t78h10K7".

What I need to do is somehow loop through the string and append the html tag  around the integers.

eg final string returned should look like :

a<sub>56</sub>c<sub>5</sub>t<sub>78</sub>h<sub>10</sub>K<sub>7</sub>

Any ideas or code would be grateful.

Regards kloner

 

[Tarwn]

I can think of two way off the top of my head,
the first would be to use a regular expression (RegExp object). Give it a search string for integers and use the replace method to replace all integers with the start tage, themselves, and the end tag.
The second way I can think of is to create a blank variable and slowly loop through each character in your string. Also create a boolean which willl start as false.
pseudo-code:
For each character c
if c is a number
if boolean flag = true
newstring = newstring & c
else
newstring = newstring & "_{" & c
booleanvar = true
end if
else 'c is a character non-numeric
if boolean flag = true
newstring = newstring & "}" & c
boolean flag = false
else
newstring = newstring & c
end if
endif
if boolean flag = true then newstring = newstring & &quot;</sub>&quot;

Once converted to real code that should work for you, let us know which you end up using

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