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Thanks,
Got it working, must have the word regex in the program line.

That should help.
Still want to find out why the regex was not working. Livecode regex must be different from other programming languages.

Thanks for replying. I do not thinks this would work for what I am trying to do. I need to find lines of data that match this general pattern. I am not trying to find specifically X12345Y12345. I need to find any line that only contains X{5 digit number]Y{5 digit number}. examples: X89888Y45678 X458...

I can not get the Rexex expression to work correctly. I am tying to find lines matching the pattern X12345Y12345 from a very long list. The pattern [X] will works, but I want to make sure I match X followed by a 5 digit mumber then Y followed by a 5 digit number. Found a regex test web site, but Liv...

Figured out what the problem was. I was trying to change the permission of the file on a USB Drive. Works ok when I copy the application file to the hard drive.

I saved a Livecode 9_6_1 standalone application for Windows and Linux. I created the application on a Windows 10 desktop and am trying to test on Linux. Under Linux I can not change the execute permission setting for the application. The setting keeps changing back to unchecked as soon as I try to c...

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Why is this not saving text from Field1 to the selected file. ask file "Save to" with type "text files|TXT" put ".txt" after it if it is empty then break end if put field "Field1" into myText open file it for write write myText to file it Close file it

So how do I highlight the word "test" if I do not know what the location is?

I need to highlight individual words in a field where the word placement is not always the same. The field is populated with a text file that can be changed so the word placement is not always the same. I have tried : set the textColor of fld "Field1" to "green" which sets all the text to green, I j...

I created a application using a window7 64 bit machine which has a browser widget in one of the stacks. The program work fine on the windows machine. I then saved the program as a standalone application for windows and Linux 64 bit. I then installed that Linux application on a Linux mint 64 bit mach...