CONVERT SUBSYSTEM - character options.
Options:
- Begin(<char>)
- Begin a new line (i.e. record) immediately after
<char>. <char> is not considered part of the
text. Multiple occurrences of <char> are treated as
a single occurrence and any occurrences at the beginning
or end of a line are simply deleted.
- Columns(i-j)
- Delete all characters in a line except those located
between positions "i" and "j"
inclusive. If the created "column" doesn"t
extend as far as position "j", it is
blank-filled to that position.
- LOWEr
- Convert the output (if "ascii",
"oldasc" or "aprint") to all lower
case.
- SQUEeze
- Replace any occurrence of two or more blanks with a
single blank.
- Tab(<char>,i,j--;<char>,i,j--;--)
- This expands tabs according to <char> (default:
ascii tab), and positions 'i', 'j' etc (default: Gmap
tabs). Normally every occurrence of <char> is
expanded except if it is encountered beyond the last
tab-stop. There is no limit to the number of tab
characters or tab-stops allowed.
- TRAIl
- Delete all trailing blanks on a line (record).
- Untab(<char>,i,j--;<char>,i,j--;--)
- Insert tab characters (equivalent to the FRED Command
"zi") replacing strings of blanks ending at
positions 'i', 'j' etc. by the tab character. The
defaults are the same as the "tab" option, and
again, there are no limits to the number of tab
characters or tab-stops allowed.
- UPPEr
- This is the same as the "lower" option except
that the output text is in all upper case.
Description:
The above options are performed in the following order:
"begin", "tab", "column",
"untab", "squeeze" and "trail".
See Also:
expl convert
expl convert options
expl convert dollar
expl convert linenumbers
expl convert media
expl convert miscellaneous
expl convert specialized
expl jrn
expl jpunch
expl jprint
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