lineOffset wildcard

Bob Sneidar bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com
Mon Apr 19 15:11:11 EDT 2021


Someone needs to update the dictionary then. 

wholeMatches

Syntax
set the wholeMatches to {true | false}

Summary
Specifies whether the lineOffset, wordOffset, and itemOffset functions search only for entire lines, words, or items.

Bob S

> On Apr 19, 2021, at 11:49 , Mark Wieder via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> On 4/19/21 11:13 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote:
>> Why even embed the function?
>> put "local" & tString & functionName() into tSearchString
>> set wholeMatches to true
>> put lineOffset(tSearchString) into tLine
>> Or am I misunderstanding the problem (again)? :-)
> 
> Been there.
> the wholematches doesn't affect the offset functions.
> 
> -- 
> Mark Wieder
> ahsoftware at gmail.com





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