Text Tools
The power of text…
The text tools are:
- fmTextConverter - for converting text values to other text values
- fmTextDiff - for comparing two texts
- fmTextMultiplier - for multiplying text values
- fmTextSeries - for constructing a series of text values
MrWatson’s Text tools don’t seem much at first,… but once you have realised that FileMaker code is nothing but XML (so easily converted with fmCheckMate or fmAutoMate), being able to manipulate xml text smartly suddenly becomes one of the most powerful tools in your tool belt!
More Text Tool functions
While the fmText* tools form the core elements of this category, there are a few more tools hidden around the place that should be mentioned here:
- fmCheckMate has a built in text result viewer, which has some very handy text functions
- tabulated text view
- just add a separator line (a single dash) after the field name line and look at it in the HTML view
- Text stats
- On the final tab you can find an analysis of the text ‘s EOL characters and utf-8 multibyte characters, word count and more
- tabulated text view
- fmSimpleCalculator has some useful functions to discover characters utf-8 or utf-16 multibyte values, and more
- The Text Mate text editor, together with a few Unix commands is also very useful combination for text editing.