RE: Can I use variable as argument in action routine?
"Paterline, David L." <[email protected]>
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Great! Thanks. - David L. Paterline Principal Engineer Nuclear Fuel Engineering Methods and Reload Tools Westinghouse Electric Company Westinghouse Energy Center E-468 Monroeville, PA 15146 USA Phone: +1 (412) 374-2286 Fax: +1 (412) 374-2284 Email: [email protected] Home Page: http://www.westinghousenuclear.com -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tony Balinski Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 2:41 PM To: General NEdit discussion list Subject: Re: Can I use variable as argument in action routine? Quoting "Paterline, David L." <[email protected]>: > I'm trying to write a little macro to delete all occurrences of selected > text in a file. Something simple like: > > $selected = get_selection() > replace_all("$selected", "", "literal") > > I've tried a number of variations of this with no luck. > > I seem to be getting the selection OK, but the replace_all routine seems to > be using the string $selected, rather than the value of the current > selection substituted for the variable $selected. > > Should I be able to use a macro variable for an argument in an action > routine? Looks like the second line should be replace_all($selected, "", "literal") ie, no quotes around the first argument. (Dollar variables aren't like shell ones - they're just global) Tony -- NEdit Discuss mailing list - [email protected] http://www.nedit.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- NEdit Discuss mailing list - [email protected] http://www.nedit.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss