Hi Richmond, An interesting approach. I’ll give it try
Thanks! Rick > On May 16, 2022, at 2:23 PM, Richmond via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Well one of the things you could do is this: > > slightly pseudo > > 1 put the number of chars in MyDATA into MyNUM > 2 put MyNUM / 3 into SLICER > 3 put chars 1-SLICER of MyDATA into firstTHIRD > 4 put chars SLICER-(SLICER * 2) into secondTHIRD > 5 put chars (SLICER * 2)-(SLICER*3) into thirdTHIRD > > at which point you can perform you search inwith secondTHIRD. > > Unless you want to recombine all those bits having performed some sort of > operation on secondThird > lines 3 and 5 are a waste of time. > > Best, Richmond. _______________________________________________ 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
