How to get word offset all instances of a string in a chunk	of	text?
    Jim Lambert 
    jiml at netrin.com
       
    Thu Aug 30 20:09:44 EDT 2018
    
    
  
> I wrote:
> 
> Then there is also this repeat-less approach using arrays and filter:
> function findWordOffsets pText, pSearchTerm
> 	put replaceText(pText,"\W+"," ") into pText
> 	split pText by space
> 	combine pText with cr and tab
> 	filter pText with "*" & tab & pSearchTerm
> 	sort numeric pText
> 	return pText
> end findWordOffsets
This just doesn’t work in all cases because splitting by space does not assure one is splitting by true words.
:(
Sorry about that.
Jim Lambert
    
    
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