Character Position Of Word in Field

[warrenk]

What would be the easiest way to get the character positions of a word in a field?

ie (pseudo code)
get beginning and/or end character postion of word x in field "My Text"

Thanks for any help!
Warren

[jmburnod]

Hi,

You can try this script.
startEndWord return the position of the fist char and the position of the last char of the word

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on mouseUp
   put startEndWordInFld(TheWord,fld 1)
end mouseUp

function startEndWordInFld pWord,pText 
   put empty into rStartEndWordInFld
   put the num of chars of pWord into nbc
   put offset(pWord,pText) into startW
   put startW+nbc-1 into endW
   put "char"&&startW&&"to"&&endW into rStartEndWordInFld
   return rStartEndWordInFld
end startEndWordInFld

Best

Jean-Marc