lineOffset wildcard

[Bob Sneidar]

Why even embed the function? 

put "local" & tString & functionName() into tSearchString
set wholeMatches to true
put lineOffset(tSearchString) into tLine

Or am I misunderstanding the problem (again)? :-)

Bob S


> On Apr 19, 2021, at 11:04 , J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> On 4/19/21 11:29 AM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote:
>> I'm sure I'm missing something simple here but...
>> I need to use a wildcard in the lineOffset function but I can't seem to find the correct invocation.
>> put lineoffset("local*"&tFunctionName, tScript) into tPos
>> always returns zero
>> put lineoffset(tFunctionName, tScript) into tPos
>> of course returns a line number, but possibly not the right one
>> put lineoffset("local"&&tFunctionName, tScript) into tPos
>> gives me the correct line in some cases but fails for
>> local tSomeFunction,tOtherFunction
>> Can anyone give me the correct syntax for using a wildcard string as an argument to lineOffset? Thanks in advance - I've spent enough time on my own trying to figger this out.
> 
> I don't think lineoffset supports wildcards, but you could do it with matchChunk.
> 
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