Try this.. on mouseup local tCharOffset --set the text of field 1 to the text of field 1 put the text of field 1 into tText put "beginning" into tstartword -- string begin put "ending" into tEndword -- string end put 1 into tCounter -- tracks current word repeat for each trueword tWord in tText switch tWord case tStartword put tCounter into tPair break case tEndword if tPair is not empty then put tPair & comma & tCounter & cr after tPairs end if break end switch add 1 to tcounter end repeat delete the last char of tPairs repeat for each line tLine in tPairs set the textcolor of trueword (item 1 of tLine) to (item 2 of tLine) of field 1 to "blue" end repeat end mouseup
On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 11:03 AM Glen Bojsza via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Mike, I believe that you are correct in understanding what I am trying to > extract. > > I will need a bit more time to work through your solution. > > regards, > > Glen > _______________________________________________ > 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