Newbie: find, search command

[Richard Gaskin]

D.Rothe wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a tab delimited list I want to be able to search, say I have a list of names for example;
> 
> Father Xmas    Is Drunk
> New Years    Is after Xmas
> Rudolph    The Reindeer
> Merry Xmas    To all
> 
> I want to search for ALL instances of Xmas and display the whole matching line of each found in a list field.
> So far I can get it to display the first line only ( Father Xmas    Is Drunk) ! 
> Any help would appreciated!!! I have checked the tutorials for help but couldn't find what I was looking for,
> is there an example stack or notes anyone may know of?

For short lists (<50,000 lines) you may be pleasantly surprised by the 
speed of what might look like clunkly Transcript:


function FindData pStringToFind, pDataToSearch
   repeat for each line tLine in pDataToSearch
      if pStringToFind is in tLine then put tLine &cr after tFoundData
   end repeat
   return tFoundData
end FindData


You can call it simply enough:

on mouseUp
   put FindData("Xmas", fld "stuff")
end mouseUp


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