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Old 09-14-2005
Subtract 100 from first field in long list? Simple manipulation?

It sounds so easy to do.

I have a file thats laid out like this..


number text text text text (etc about 15 times with various text fields)

I want to take the first field, "number", subtract 100 from it, and then put it back in the file. a simple little manipulation of the first field in the file.

is there an easy way to do this?

So if it looks like


14523 a b c d e f
24245 g h i j k l

it would end up being

14423 a b c d e f
24145 g h i j k
LordJezo
 

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Name
       DwtSTextGetEditable - Obtains the current edit permission state indicating whether the user can edit the text in the simple text widget.

Syntax
       Boolean DwtSTextGetEditable(widget)
	    Widget widget;

Arguments
       widget	 Specifies the ID of the simple text widget whose edit permission state you want to obtain.

Description
       The  DwtSTextGetEditable function returns the current edit-permission-state, which indicates whether the user can edit the text in the sim-
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Return Values
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See Also
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