regex/HTMLText question

[Peter Brigham MD]

Ah, you want to exclude parts of words. Try this:

function wordOffsets str,cntr,wholeWords
    if wholeWords = empty then put true into wholeWords
    -- or you could default to false if you want
    put offsets(str, cntr) into charList
    -- assumes you have the offsets() function to draw on
    -- see my previous email
    if charList = "0" then return "0"
    put the number of items of charList into nbr
    put "" into oList
    repeat for each item n in charList
       if wholeWords and word n of cntr <> str then next repeat
       put the number of words of (char 1 to n of ctr) & "," after oList
    end repeat
    if char -1 of oList = "," then delete char -1 of oList
    return oList
end wordOffsets

This will still be extremely fast unless you're processing megabytes  
of text.

-- Peter

Peter M. Brigham
pmbrig at gmail.com
http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig



On Dec 15, 2009, at 5:27 PM, Chris Sheffield wrote:

> Thanks, Craig. Unfortunately, this doesn't quite work either. If I  
> were to run:
>
> replace "use" with "<box>use</box" in it
>
> It would not only replace the whole word "use", but also the string  
> "use" in the word "used", so I would end up with something like  
> "<box>use</box>d", which is not the desired result.
>
>
> On Dec 15, 2009, at 1:56 PM, DunbarX at aol.com wrote:
>
>> Right, thanks to all.
>>
>> Chris', your original regex question could better be addressed by:
>>
>> on mouseup
>>   get fld "yourField"
>>   replace yourtext with "<box>" & yourtext & "</box>" in it
>>   set the htmltext of fld "yourField" to it
>> end mouseup
>>
>> This would be fast, and easily extendable, since we are just  
>> crunching
>> data.
>>
>> Not that there isn't a good regex solution as well...
>>
>> Craig Newman
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