hiliting all instances of a string in a field

[Dar Scott]

On Wednesday, March 3, 2004, at 11:35 AM, Trevor DeVore wrote:
>>
>> Or skip said elements or chars before matching string.  Use a 
>> non-gathering group and (because of the bug) a range on the repeat.  
>> I know that is cryptic and short.  Ask if I need to elaborate.
>
> Please elaborate :-)
>
I gotta run and will be back in maybe three hours.

This is wrong, wrong but might get you started if you want to play with 
it:

\A(?:<a.*<\\a>|.){0,100}(abc)(.*)\z

where abc is your match and there are no more than 100 characters or 
<a> elements between instances.  When the bug is fixed change {0,100} 
to *.

Remember to test for match and nonmatch.

Dar Scott