multiple-word phrases, links
Kjetil Rå Hauge
k.r.hauge at east.uio.no
Thu Sep 11 04:38:00 EDT 2003
>Hi there.
>
>I have a list containing various multiple-word phrases and I want
>Revolution to find those phrases in a text field and turn them into
>links (the whole phrase, not individual words). What's the best way
>of doing this? I can use wordOffset for each individual word in the
>phrase and then make sure that the offsets are next to each other in
>the text, but that sounds horrible. There has to be a better way.
>
How about foundChunk? Quoting from the dodumentation:
Use the foundChunk function after a find command to determine where
the text was found.
Value:
The foundChunk function returns a chunk expression of the form char
startChar to endChar of field fieldNumber.
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