FlexibleLearning- Wednesday, December 21, 2011, 12:00:29 PM, you wrote:
> An alternative approach: > Assuming that the phrase "now is the time, for all good men" is in fld 1, > then this button script.... > on mouseUp > put findWord(fld 1,"time") > end mouseUp > function findWord pContent,pStr > if pStr is among the tokens of pContent then > return num of words of char 1 to offset(pStr,pContent) of pContent > else return 0 > end findWord > reurns 4 as expected. Similarly for 'time-bomb' and other variants. Yes, but... if the phrase is "now is the time,for all good men" then a search for "all" will return 5 instead of 6. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net _______________________________________________ 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