Hi, in fact, one can use : put lineoffset( CR & "String2Find", text2lookAt, skippedLines ) into idx
it works well ! but the problem i found then is the time expanding when the text2lookAt starts to grow... did the test with 900 Kb of text... So, instead of using skippedLines, i delete the line 1 to the 'idx' line of the text2lookAt; get better result but still, not very fast. it seems that the delete build in function has a strange behavior; very fast at the beginning of the text and more and more we go to the end of the text, increase drastically in time ( delete more or less the same size ). Any Comments on this ? regards, thierry | > put lineoffset("String2Find", text2lookAt, skippedLines ) into idx | > if Offset("String2Find", line idx of text2lookAt ) is not 1 | > then ... ( Wrong place ! ) | > | > How can I find the "String2Find" only at the beginning of a line ? | > | If you work with Offset in stead of lineOffset the first time, | you get only those lines starting with "String2Find" : | (in the repeat, 'idx' is the line number so you can use it for | the next of your algorithm) | | on mouseUp | -- initializing part | put "Xabc"&CR&"abcY"&CR&"XabcY" into text2lookAt | repeat 2 | put text2lookAt&CR&text2lookAt into text2lookAt | end repeat | put "abc" into String2Find | | put length(String2Find) into lLen | put 0 into skippedChars | repeat | put offset(CR&String2Find, CR&text2lookAt, skippedChars) | into lFoundPos | if lFoundPos = 0 then exit repeat | put the number of lines of | (char 1 to skippedChars+lFoundPos of text2lookAt) into idx | | SaveIndex( idx ) -- PrivateFunction to store all indexes | | add lFoundPos+lLen to skippedChars | end repeat | end mouseUp | | regards, Jan _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution