Something like charIndex, but in a variable...

[Walt Brown]

Best I could do is:

*on* mouseUp

*local* tVar, tStart, tEnd

*put* fld "fData" into tVar

*get* matchChunk(tVar, "(" & word 8 of tVar & ")", tStart, tEnd)

*answer* tStart & comma && tEnd

*end* mouseUp

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 4:07 AM, Malte Brill <revolution at derbrill.de> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I need to find the start and end character of chuncks in a variable. If we
> are in a field we can use charIndex for that. However, in a variable I have
> no good idea on how to do something similar to
>
> get charIndex(token 7 of line 15 of field „myField“)
>
>
> Any ideas?
>
> All the best,
>
> Malte
>
>
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