Carl's program to soften CRs

[Mary Bernard <Mary_Bernard@nospam.compuserve.com>]

Back on December 1st Tom Driver sent a message saying that my program 
SOFTEN.DEF, which he'd downloaded from Rick's NB users' website, didn't 
work right for him. It was supposed to remove single CRs from defined 
passages in text (such as email messages) that has a CR at the end of every 
line and a CR CR string between paragraphs. Instead, it worked on the whole 
file.

Carl Distefano noticed the message, downloaded the program, found a number 
of reasons why it didn't work as advertised, and wrote a program that 
*does* work, beautifully - UNCR.PM. If you've got text defined, UNCR.PM 
removes single CRs within the define only. If you haven't, it removes 
single CRs from the whole file.

With Carl's permission I am posting UNCR.PM to the list (see attached 
program), and sending it to Rick Penticoff for inclusion in the XPL section 
of the website. Anyone who downloaded SOFTEN.DEF or SOFTEN.FIL and found 
that they worked (as they still do for me, in spite of their programming 
inadequacies) should still change over to UNCR.PM. It's much faster - and 
just one program instead of two.

For XPL buffs - Carl's program is a model of economy. It also illustrates 
the use of the new negation wildcard. If anyone wants more info about it, I 
can probably (after helpful tutoring from Carl) supply it.

Mary

Mary

Mary Bernard
mary_bernard@nospam.compuserve.com

Uncr.pm