Hi Mike, Yes this works....never used or knew about trueword.
thanks! Glen On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 1:21 PM, Mike Bonner via use-livecode < [email protected]> wrote: > Try this.. > > on mouseup > local tCharOffset > --set the text of field 1 to the text of field 1 > put the text of field 1 into tText > put "beginning" into tstartword -- string begin > put "ending" into tEndword -- string end > put 1 into tCounter -- tracks current word > repeat for each trueword tWord in tText > switch tWord > case tStartword > put tCounter into tPair > break > case tEndword > if tPair is not empty then > put tPair & comma & tCounter & cr after tPairs > end if > break > end switch > add 1 to tcounter > end repeat > delete the last char of tPairs > repeat for each line tLine in tPairs > set the textcolor of trueword (item 1 of tLine) to (item 2 of tLine) > of field 1 to "blue" > end repeat > end mouseup > > On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 11:03 AM Glen Bojsza via use-livecode < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Mike, I believe that you are correct in understanding what I am trying to > > extract. > > > > I will need a bit more time to work through your solution. > > > > regards, > > > > Glen > > _______________________________________________ > > use-livecode mailing list > > [email protected] > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > > subscription preferences: > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
