Re: scripted find and find again...

2021-06-27 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
I've never tried it but I know it's possible because the script editor does it. I haven't looked at the scripts in the editor but if you're ambitious you could. If I had to do this myself from a cold start, I think I'd use offset with its skip parameter to sequentially find occurances of the

Re: scripted find and find again...

2021-06-27 Thread Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode
Paul: > It appears Livecode's language has no support for Backwards searching. These days, for a one-off backward sequential find with no hints, I'd be tempted to use a "last item of" calculation; short and simple. > With hints, so it shows you snippets of the matches for you to jump > to