charIndex property

[Paul Dupuis]

On 7/27/2023 5:06 PM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote:
> Oh those pesky chunks which don’t ‘cover’ the target string (which is actually all of them except codeunit/point/char come to think of it). I should have run through a few more examples in my head before posting….
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> Alternative attempt:
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> Put null into word N to -1 of S
> Delete codeunit (codeunitoffset(null, S) to -1 of S
> Return the number of chars in S + 1
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> The problem before was the chars which do not form part of the last chunk and remain after deletion.
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> The above puts in a sentinel char which can be searched for to find where the requested chunk started.
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> Second time lucky? ;)
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Second time's the charm. That works for all chunk types tested 
(trueWord, sentence, paragraph)! Thank you!