Hi Richmond, in LC 7 you can use sentence as a text unit. Since sentence seems your context it is tempting to use that
here is an adaption of the is/was handler returning the sentence number and the sentence Easy to read, easy to maintain and reasonably fast. Just paste the code into a copy of your button "is / are" ------------------------------------------------------- on mouseUp lock screen put the milliseconds into t put empty into fld "COOKED2" put empty into fld "STARTT" put empty into fld "STOPT" put "started : " & the long time into fld "STARTT" put fld "TEKST" into TEKST put fld "WERBS" into WERBS repeat for each line aVerb in Werbs put "is " & aVerb into tSearch1 put "are " & aVerb into tSearch2 put 1 into tCounter repeat for each sentence aSentence in TEKST if aSentence contains tSearch1 then put tCounter & space & aSentence & cr after tCollect end if if aSentence contains tSearch2 then put tCounter & space & aSentence & cr after tCollect2 end if add 1 to tCounter end repeat end repeat put tCollect & cr & tCollect2 into field "COOKED2" put "finished : " & the long time into fld "STOPT" -- put the milliseconds - t unlock screen end mouseUp -------------------------------------------------------- Kind regards Bernd -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Jane-Austen-s-peculiarity-tp4694658p4694849.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.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