That find command

[John Vokey]

All,
   I'm baffled.  I know other commands, such as offset, are faster and 
more useful, but I was trying to use the metacard (2.4.3, Mac OS X 
10.2.3) find command  and discovered that for some reason it doesn't 
work, or at least I can't get it to work.  I finally stripped it down 
to a simple stack with two fields, "test" and "out", with test 
containing 3 lines consisting of, respectively, "aaaa", "bbbb", and 
"cccc".  Executing the following simple stack script from the message 
box (using any of the variations, including "string") fails to work 
(i.e., nothing but the return is placed in the field "out").

on testit
   find  "bbbb" in fld "test"
   put the foundline into fld "out"
   find string "aaaa" in fld "test"
   put return & the foundline into fld "out"
end testit

Worse yet, I started this failed exploration, after a colleague 
reported to me that successive finds in a script would only search 
*forward*.  For example, although find "aaaa", followed by find "bbbb", 
would (in his stack on his computer) successfully find both, find 
"bbbb" followed by find "aaaa" would find only "bbbb".  I said he was 
nuts, and began the experiment that resulted, eventually, in the simple 
failed test above.  Any ideas?

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