Something like charIndex, but in a variable...

[dunbarx at aol.com]

Malte.


Just so. Too fast on keyboard, too slow in brain. How about this:



on mouseUp
   put fld 1 into temp
   get the number of chars of word 1 to 8 of temp -- first char
   answer it & "," & the number of chars of word 8 of temp + it
end mouseUp


Craig



Will hilite the first b instead of the one
on line 3.

@Mark: charIndex does not appear to be working on the templateField.
And of course it is slower in 7… :-(

All the
best,

Malte



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-----Original Message-----
From: Malte Brill <revolution at derbrill.de>
To: use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Thu, Apr 30, 2015 10:03 am
Subject: Something like charIndex, but in a variable...


Hi all,

thanks for the replies so far.

The problem with both matchChunk and
offset are, that they will return the first occurance of the literal. So in a
text like this:


orange banana tomato
banana tomato orange
tomato banana
orange

on mouseUp
   local temp,tChar
   put fld 1 into temp
   put offset(char
1 of word 2 of line 3 of temp,temp) into tChar
   set the backcolor of char
tChar of fld 1 to "red"
end mouseUp

Will hilite the first b instead of the one
on line 3.

@Mark: charIndex does not appear to be working on the templateField.
And of course it is slower in 7… :-(

All the
best,

Malte



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