Determining stack of object nested in groups

Jim Lyons jimlyons at earthlink.net
Sun Aug 29 09:11:31 EDT 2004


On Aug 29, 2004, at 3:22 AM, use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com 
wrote:

> I just put together a regular expression to extract an
> unknown stack:
>
> get matchText(long id of myObject, "(stack "&quote&".*"&quote&")$",
> tTargeStack)
>
> This will put:
>
> stack "Owner stack name"
>
> into tTargetStack.

Since a quoted string is one "word" in Transcript and since the stack 
is always the last component of the long id, you may also use:

word -2 to -1 of the long id of myObject

Jim Lyons



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