Hi again.
I'm working on an indexing script.
The relevant portion of my script so far: (it works thanks to you guys)
repeat until the shiftKey is down
set cursor to busy
put the number of this card into firstNum
find tTempSearch in field "narrative"
put the foundChunk into tFound
put the result into tResult
put the number of this card into secNum
if word 2 of tFound > 30 then subtract 30 from word 2 of tFound
add 30 to word 4 of tFound
put value(tFound) && "Card ID" & the short ID of this card & cr & cr
after tFoundList
if tresult = "not found" then exit repeat
if firstnum > secnum then exit repeat
end repeat
At the climax of the script, variable tFoundList gets put into a (cleverly
clickable) field on the index card. I can see thirty characters before and
after the word or string I searched for, so I can see the searched-for word in
context. This will be a more useful index, for my purpose.
The trouble is, I end up with fragmentary words in my index field. They look
crappy and they're distracting.
I'm trying to figure out a way to end up with a consecutive sequence of whole
words in each line of the index field.
I'm hoping there's a function that works with the "find" command to return
something like "word 88 of field 1" As far as I can tell, nothing like that
exists. If it did, I could put it into a variable, manipulate it until it looks
like "word 78 to 98 of field 1" and then get its value.
If that isn't possible, I guess I will have to get the foundChunk and mess with
it, to count backward and forward until I encounter " " or cr characters. This
will be slow, and it will take me forever to script, though I am capable of
getting it right in the end, howsoever kludgily.
I tried "the foundText" but as far as I can tell, it returns value(the
foundChunk). Not what I need. I tried "find word" but the foundChunk still
returns characters, not words.
Am I missing anything?
Thanks again,
Tim (the perpetual newbie)
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