Newbie: find, search command

[J. Landman Gay]

On 11/16/04 4:58 PM, D.Rothe wrote:

> Hi,
> I have a tab delimited list I want to be able to search, say I have a list of names for example;
> 
> Father Xmas    Is Drunk
> New Years    Is after Xmas
> Rudolph    The Reindeer
> Merry Xmas    To all
> 
> I want to search for ALL instances of Xmas and display the whole matching line of each found in a list field.
> So far I can get it to display the first line only ( Father Xmas    Is Drunk) ! 
> Any help would appreciated!!! I have checked the tutorials for help but couldn't find what I was looking for,
> is there an example stack or notes anyone may know of?

Here's one way:

on mouseUp
   answer getLines("Xmas",fld 1)
end mouseUp

function getLines tString,tData
   put 0 into tOffset
   repeat
     get lineoffset(tString,tData,tOffset)
     if it = 0 then exit repeat
     put line it+tOffset of tData & cr after tNewList
     add it to tOffset
   end repeat
   return tNewList
end getLines

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