Something like charIndex, but in a variable...

[Peter M. Brigham]

If the example you give is an accurate portrayal of what you are trying to do, why not just:

set the backcolor of char 1 of word 2 of line 3 of temp to "red"    ??

-- Peter

Peter M. Brigham
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On Apr 30, 2015, at 10:02 AM, Malte Brill wrote:

> 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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