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From: clye@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Christopher Lye)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Hypercard Address Stack and Mail Merges
Keywords: hypercard stacks mail merge writenow macwrite
Message-ID: <8386@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 12 May 89 05:47:02 GMT
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Organization: Princeton University, NJ
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I just spent a good hour fiddling with both hypercard scripts and 
the mail merge functions on Writenow 2.0 and MacWrite II which both use
similar format for their mail merges.

I am using a script routine that I got out of the Complete Hypercard
Book to WRITE the "name and address" field data to a text file. However,
the way data is entered into the Address stack there is a hard return
between NAME, STREET and STATE entries. Now when using the mail merge
functions on the two programs I mentioned they call for a TAB between
each of these variables/fields and a hard return between each
entry/record.

My question is that is there a script that will replace the hard returns
between each field into tabs and place a hard return between each
record. I am not a very experienced scripter so please excuse me if this
is something quite trivial.

An example would be:

Hypercard Entry -->  Apple Computer [return]
                     20525 Mariani Avenue [return]
                     Cupertino, CA 95014[return]

Mail merge data format --> Apple Computer[tab]20525 Mariani Avenue[tab]
                       Cupertino, CA 95014 [return]

Any help from veteran scripters is much appreciated. Please E-mail
replies and I will post a summary of the replies.

Thanks,

     Chris