how to do this type of search

[Peter M. Brigham, MD]

Set the wholematches to true before your search, then it will only locate the string when it is a whole word.

-- Peter

Peter M. Brigham
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On Apr 9, 2012, at 9:06 PM, Nicolas Cueto wrote:

>> The 'lineOffset' function will be your friend here...
> 
> If only it truly were that simple...
> 
> In my example, lineOffset would return "3" for "is". But "5" is what I'm after.
> 
> --
> Nicolas Cueto
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