the line number in a variable

[scotttyang]

I had always used find and foundline, but only in Text fields, but what about finding the line in a variables?

If my variable x has

A
B
C
D
E

how do I find the line where "C' is located in the variable "x"?

Scott

[jmburnod]

Hi Scott,

What about this:

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   put "A,B,C,D,E" & cr into x
   replace "," with cr in x
   put lineoffset(C & cr,x)

Best regards
Jean-Marc

[Randy Hengst]

You could try:

local tVariableWithLines

repeat with x = 1 to the number of lines in tVariableWithLines
if line x of tVariableWithLines = "C" then
answer x
end if
end repeat

be well,
randy