It's easy to construct similar extensions of the other offset functions: lineoffsets(), itemoffsets() and wordoffsets(). They come in very handy. I do a lot of text munching and I am continually using one or another of them. One common situation is when you need not the first occurrence of a string in a container, but the last occurrence. Then just do: item -1 of offsets(str,tContainer). Or the line containing the last occurrence of str would be item -1 of lineoffsets(str,tContainer). Need to make every occurrence of a particular word appear in bold? It's easy using wordoffsets(). Etc, etc.
-- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Feb 23, 2014, at 11:14 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > Yours includes the method of finding whole words. I left that out for > brevity but it's a common thing to need. So, not a waste. > > On February 23, 2014 6:18:28 AM CST, "Peter M. Brigham" <pmb...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Oh. Didn't see this before I sent off my version… >> >> -- Peter > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
