That should be exactly what the snippet does - maybe I got your test data wrong. An occurrence of the first item in the fourth item is colorised.
Sent from my iPhone On 10 Aug 2011, at 00:25, Roger Eller <roger.e.el...@sealedair.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 6:19 PM, John Craig wrote: > >> Hi, Roger. Here's a quickie - create a stack with two fields ('in' and >> 'out') put your data into field 'in' and the following into the button >> script; >> >> on mouseUp >> set itemDel to tab >> put fld "in" into tData >> put the num of lines in tData into tLines >> repeat with i = 1 to tLines >> put item 1 of line i of tData into tNumber >> replace tNumber with "<font color=red>" & tNumber & "</font>" in item >> 4 of line i of tData >> put "<br>" after line i of tData >> end repeat >> set the htmlText of fld "out" to tData >> end mouseUp >> >> >> HTH >> >> :) >> >> > Thank you John! However, my goal is to only make a portion of the filename > red, not the entire filename. I need to locate, line by line, where the text > matches the text from the first column of that line, and ONLY affect the > color of those chars. > > ˜Roger > _______________________________________________ > 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