If the example you give is an accurate portrayal of what you are trying to do, why not just:
set the backcolor of char 1 of word 2 of line 3 of temp to "red" ?? -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Apr 30, 2015, at 10:02 AM, Malte Brill wrote: > Hi all, > > thanks for the replies so far. > > The problem with both matchChunk and offset are, that they will return the > first occurance of the literal. So in a text like this: > > > orange banana tomato > banana tomato orange > tomato banana orange > > on mouseUp > local temp,tChar > put fld 1 into temp > put offset(char 1 of word 2 of line 3 of temp,temp) into tChar > set the backcolor of char tChar of fld 1 to "red" > end mouseUp > > Will hilite the first b instead of the one on line 3. > > @Mark: charIndex does not appear to be working on the templateField. And of > course it is slower in 7… :-( > > All the best, > > Malte > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
