how to do this type of search

[Peter M. Brigham, MD]

On Apr 9, 2012, at 9:06 PM, Nicolas Cueto wrote:

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> If only it truly were that simple...
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> In my example, lineOffset would return "3" for "is". But "5" is what I'm after.

Sorry, setting the wholematches to true then doing lineoffset will get you whole matches for lines. Instead:

set the wholematches to true
put wordoffset("is",m) into ww
put the number of lines of word 1 to ww of m into whichline

-- Peter

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