Hiliting Words in a Field

[Michael Kann]

Gregory,

A while back on the list there was much discussion of what constitutes a "word." To cover all your bases you have to concern yourself with punctuation and case. It's all there in gory detail. Here's some code that might help out a wee bit. I'm sure others on the forum can do it in one line, so you might want to wait for their input.

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on mouseUp
put "Scotland is victorious" into fld 1
put "Scotland"into chosenWord
put "yellow" into chosenColor
put fld 1 into v
put zero into c
repeat for each word w in v 
add 1 to c
if w is chosenWord then
set the backgroundColor of word c of fld 1 to chosenColor
end if
end repeat
end mouseUp
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--- On Mon, 6/7/10, Gregory Lypny <gregory.lypny at videotron.ca> wrote:

> From: Gregory Lypny <gregory.lypny at videotron.ca>
> Subject: Hiliting Words in a Field
> To: "Revolution" <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
> Date: Monday, June 7, 2010, 3:09 PM
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I have a data field with many lines and I'd like to script
> a handler that hilites every appearance of a particular word
> in yellow?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Gregory
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