Something like charIndex, but in a variable...

[Walt Brown]

Sorry to be so dense but can you colorize text without a field? Or are you
running through the text as an XML tree (either Rev's or your own) or
manually editing HTML text behind the scenes and adding a colorization
attribute?

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Malte Brill <revolution at derbrill.de> wrote:

> Thanks for all the suggestions. Need some time to try them out. I really
> like Thierrys RegEx approach and the others look promissing too.
>
> @Walt: In the real live Scenario I try to colorize Structured Data (e.G.
> XML, but others too). I need to walk through the whole dataset token by
> token and really have the token number I am interested in. I need to find
> the start and end position inside of the dataset (e.G. token 79 starts at
> char 400 and ends at 402).
> The datasets can potentially be huge. A field would add quite a bit of
> overhead here, which I am not necessariely keen on. :-)
> Also the dataset *might* be that huge and to make it worse actually be on
> a single line, that a field would cut off some of the data, while a
> variable would not.
>
> Ultimate goal is to have a tiny text editor, that can colorize the data
> and point out where in the data it is potentionally malformed and ideally
> what the error is.
>
> All the best,
>
> Malte
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> use-livecode mailing list
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com
> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your
> subscription preferences:
> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
>