Problems with Filter?

[Rick Harrison]

Ok, that straightened out my confusion.

Thanks!

> On Mar 12, 2022, at 5:40 PM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Exactly. You want matchtext, not filter.
> 
> There is a way to finesse this if you really need to use filter:
> 
>   local tSubString, tTarget, tLargeTextString
>   local tResult
> 
>   put "*THIS*FIND*" into tTarget
>   put "abcdef&cr&ghijkTHISISMYTEXTTOFINDlmnopq&cr&rstuvwxyz" into tLargeTextString
> 
>   filter tLargeTextString with tTarget
>   set the itemDelimiter to "THIS"
>   put item 2 of tLargeTextString into tSubString
>   set the itemDelimiter to "FIND"
>   put item 1 of tSubString into tResult