String renumber range
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This function allows you to renumber a range of strings to either a new range of strings or to the same string number.
To run this function: Choose Edit > String > Renumber range.
Layer
Display only. The name of the active layer is displayed here to remind you of which strings you will be renumbering.
String range from
Enter the range of strings which are to be renumbered.
String range to
Enter the new range of strings to which the string range entered above is to be renumbered. You can renumber the string range in one of two different ways depending on the input which you make here. You can renumber each of the strings in the input range to a new string number on a 1 to 1 basis. For example:
String range from = 1,5
String range to = 10,50,10
Inputs such as this gives a 1 to 1 correspondence of string numbers in the String range from to the String range to and so that string 1 becomes string 10, string 2 becomes string 20 and so on.
Alternatively you can renumber each of the strings in the input range to a new string number on an N to 1 basis. For example:
String range from = 1,5
String range to = 10
Inputs such as this gives an N to 1 correspondence of string numbers in the String range from to the String range to so that strings 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 all become different segments of string 10.
Note that the two methods described above are the only valid methods for renumbering a range of strings.
All the strings in the string range from are renumbered to the string range to according to the rules described above. The strings are also erased and redrawn. If some of the strings in the String range from do not exist then they are simply ignored and causes no errors to occur.