I am not very familiar with regular expressions, and I'm wondering if someone
more knowledgeable could give me a hint as to how to accomplish this.
Given a passage of text, I need to find every instance of certain words within
that text and draw a box around them. The box drawing I can handle just fine by
including "box" in the textStyle of the found chunk. But it's finding the
instances that I'm struggling with. Here is my code. Big warning! This should
not be run as is, if anyone wants to attempt it. The second repeat will go
forever.
repeat for each line tWord in tDiffWords
repeat until matchChunk(tStoryText, "(?i)\b(" & tWord & ")\b",
tStartChar, tEndChar) is false
put the textStyle of char tStartChar to tEndChar of fld "StoryText"
into tStyle
if tStyle is empty or tStyle is "plain" then
put "box" into tStyle
else
put comma & "box" after tStyle
end if
set the textStyle of char tStartChar to tEndChar of fld "StoryText"
to tStyle
end repeat
end repeat
What I need is some way to use the matchChunk function and continue the search
where the last search ended. I read through some regex documentation and came
across "\G", but this doesn't seem to work in Rev. But maybe I'm not putting it
in the right place in my search string.
Can anyone help? Is there a way to do this? Or can someone recommend another
method of accomplishing the same thing? Keep in mind that this needs to search
whole words in a story passage, and we're dealing with all kinds of punctuation
here, including hyphens, em dashes, etc.
Thanks,
Chris
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Chris Sheffield
Read Naturally, Inc.
www.readnaturally.com
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