How to "retrieve" only useful information in a long list

[Mark Smith]

Glad it worked!

  Offset, ItemOffset, wordOffset and lineOffset are extremely useful  
functions.


Best,

Mark

On 3 Feb 2006, at 14:58, alex wu wrote:

> Mark,
>
>   Thanks.  It works!  This is really a good idea.  I can use this  
> idea to do a lot of things with RR:)
>
>   Alex
>
> Mark Smith <mark at maseurope.net> wrote:
>   Untested:
>
> put offset("FIXED WORDINGS HERE", fld "myField") + length("FIXED
> WORDINGS HERE") into startChar
> put offset(("ANOTHER FIXED WORDINGS HERE", fld "myField") - 1 into
> endChar
> get char startChar to endChar of fld "myField"
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Mark
>
> On 3 Feb 2006, at 14:01, alex wu wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have problem in "retrieving" wanted information in a
>> list field.
>>
>> For example, the list field has the following content:
>>
>> Runtime Revolution is a great ...................
>> .................................................
>> ......................................
>>
>> FIXED WORDINGS HERE
>>
>> This is paragraph 2..............................
>> ...................................
>>
>> Paragraph 3 start here...........................
>> .................................................
>> ................
>>
>> Paragraph 4 start here...........................
>> .................................................
>> ................
>>
>> Paragraph 5 start here...........................
>> .................................................
>> ................
>>
>> ANOTHER FIXED WORDINGS HERE
>>
>> This is the last paragraph ......................
>> ............
>>
>>
>> Note:
>> 1. The "FIXED WORDINGS HERE" and "ANOTHER FIXED
>> WORDINGS HERE" always appear in that two positions.
>>
>> 2. The contents of all paragraphs will be different
>> with different list.
>>
>> Here's what I want to do:
>>
>> I only want the content from "FIXED WORDINGS HERE" to
>> "ANOTHER FIXED WORDINGS HERE". Because this is the
>> information I only needed. How can I do that?
>>
>> P.S.Actually the list are very long, much longer than
>> the above example.
>>
>> Thanks and best regards
>>
>> Alex
>>
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