how to do this type of search

Mike Bonner bonnmike at gmail.com
Mon Apr 9 21:33:29 EDT 2012


If using 5.5 there is also lineindex
put lineindex(wordoffset("is,m)) into ww
^-- should give the line the word is found on.

On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Peter M. Brigham, MD <pmbrig at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Apr 9, 2012, at 9:06 PM, Nicolas Cueto wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > If only it truly were that simple...
> >
> > 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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