Thanks Brian. I looked at matchChunk in the dictionary & it seems to return a boolean, rather than the offset.
Thanks all - I’ve stopped trying to find the syntax for ‘find any char but this’ in offset and instead, taken Dick’s advice to iterate through the chars and count the loops until char <> tab. :) Best, Keith > On 21 Jan 2021, at 14:03, Brian Milby via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > You could also use matchChunk with a regular expression that excludes the tab > character. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Jan 21, 2021, at 7:14 AM, Keith Clarke via use-livecode >> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >> >> Ah yes indeed, I’d forgotten I could test with 'put not(tab)’ in the >> message box - that certainly proves the syntax was wrong! :-) >> Best, >> Keith >> >>>> On 21 Jan 2021, at 10:49, Dick Kriesel via use-livecode >>>> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> On Jan 21, 2021, at 2:34 AM, Keith Clarke via use-livecode >>>>> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> I was just keen to understand why offset wasn’t happy with the ‘not(tab)’ >>>> in this instance. >>> >>> expression "not(tab)" evaluates to true, which doesn’t serve your purpose >>> >>> — Dick >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
