> On Jan 21, 2021, at 1:30 AM, Keith Clarke via use-livecode
> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote:
>
> Please can anyone advise on the correct syntax for trying to find the first
> non-tab character offset in a string
Hi, Keith. You could test each character until you find a tab:
function offsetOfNotTab pString
local i
repeat for each char tChar in pString
add 1 to i
if tChar <> tab then return i
end repeat
end offsetOfNotTab
— Dick
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