Find Item's Line w/offset

[Ken Ray]

Brilliant, Jeanne! I never thought of that... :-)

(Just had to comment... )

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeanne A. E. DeVoto" <jeanne at runrev.com>
To: <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 3:03 PM
Subject: Re: Find Item's Line w/offset


> At 12:23 PM -0800 1/23/03, mark mitchell wrote:
> >I want to find an item in a container, but only whole matches.  Then I
> >want to delete the LINE which contains that item.  So I need that line
> >number information.  I know you can get this with the FoundLine, but is
> >there any way to get it using offset?  Since I need whole matches to an
> >item, I cannot use 'lineOffset' but must use 'itemOffset'.  So is there
> >anyway to convert from item number to a line number of a container?
> 
> set the wholeMatches to true
> put itemOffset(whatToFind,theContainer) into myItemNumber
> put the number of lines in (item 1 to myItemNumber of theContainer) \
>    into theItemLine
> 
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