Thanks for all the suggestions. Need some time to try them out. I really like Thierrys RegEx approach and the others look promissing too.
@Walt: In the real live Scenario I try to colorize Structured Data (e.G. XML, but others too). I need to walk through the whole dataset token by token and really have the token number I am interested in. I need to find the start and end position inside of the dataset (e.G. token 79 starts at char 400 and ends at 402). The datasets can potentially be huge. A field would add quite a bit of overhead here, which I am not necessariely keen on. :-) Also the dataset *might* be that huge and to make it worse actually be on a single line, that a field would cut off some of the data, while a variable would not. Ultimate goal is to have a tiny text editor, that can colorize the data and point out where in the data it is potentionally malformed and ideally what the error is. All the best, Malte _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
