Thanks for those who helped with my regex problem and apologies for reposting this msg but it appears to have gotten mixed into another one in the digest.

Can anyone enlighten me about using a field name in a matchtext expressiuon? I want to find an expression in a field of a stack, ("text") and take the expression itself from the fld "findwhat". The string being searched in this case is the contents of the field, but in this formulation it seems that 'bg fld "text" ' is the expression being searched, is that right? So how can I get the regex to search a bg fld in the whole stack? I've tried the following and it doesn't work:

  put fld  "findwhat" into findtemp
  matchtext (bg fld "text", findtemp)

Thanks for your help

Nick


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