rtftext and matchChunk

Peterson Trethewey threemanifold at yahoo.com
Sun Aug 3 12:28:00 EDT 2003


Looks like the regular expression "\s" doesn't match
whitespace that comes from rtf text.  Okay, that
problem is specific enough that I can work around it.

--- Peterson Trethewey <threemanifold at yahoo.com>
wrote:
> I'm trying to use matchChunk to find instances of a
> certain word in only part of a field.  I created the
> field's content by setting rtfText.  I swear,
> matchChunk doesn't match any text that the rtf
> contributes.  It matches if I type the word myself,
> or
> if I copy the word from one place in the field and
> paste it in another place.  It's as if rtfText is
> cursed in some way that makes it invisible to the
> match.  Does this sound familiar to anybody?
> 
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