Probably a silly question about 'find'

[Mark Smith]

Peter, in the specific case here, you could do this
find "4" & tab

Best,

Mark

On 18 Jan 2007, at 09:32, Peter Alcibiades wrote:

> Feels like a very silly question, but it is stumping me.
>
> How do I use 'find' to find '4' when it occurs by itself but not 4  
> when it
> occurs in '4.1', when searching the contents of a field?
>
> I have a field with tab separated values in the form
>
> 1	1234
> 2	2.56
> 3	4.1
> 4	9.274
>
> and I want to find only that line in which there is a match of the  
> inputted
> string with the first item.  The first item will always be a unique  
> value.
> So I want in some way to do a find on 4 that will pick up only line  
> 4, and
> not the occurrence of 4 in line 3.
>
> Find word doesn't seem to work, because presumably Rev sees the '.'  
> as a word
> limiter.  Whereas in fact, its a decimal....  Find string in item 1  
> doesn't
> work either.   In fact, none of the parameters on find seem to work.
>
> The only thing that has occurred to me is a real kludge - just  
> stick some
> character like # in front of or after the numbers in the first  
> position, and
> then search for #4, and hope that it never occurs to anyone to put  
> this
> character into the second field!  But there must surely be a very  
> simple and
> much better way?
>
> Peter
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