is among the words AND find words
Mark Wieder
mwieder at ahsoftware.net
Wed Dec 21 15:09:03 EST 2011
FlexibleLearning-
Wednesday, December 21, 2011, 12:00:29 PM, you wrote:
> An alternative approach:
> Assuming that the phrase "now is the time, for all good men" is in fld 1,
> then this button script....
> on mouseUp
> put findWord(fld 1,"time")
> end mouseUp
> function findWord pContent,pStr
> if pStr is among the tokens of pContent then
> return num of words of char 1 to offset(pStr,pContent) of pContent
> else return 0
> end findWord
> reurns 4 as expected. Similarly for 'time-bomb' and other variants.
Yes, but... if the phrase is "now is the time,for all good men" then a
search for "all" will return 5 instead of 6.
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-Mark Wieder
mwieder at ahsoftware.net
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