Find whole or find word with apostrophe

[JackD]

I'm having a problem with the find command when a field contains an apostrophe. A statement like
find whole "s" or find word "s"
stops at each 's (apostrophe s, as in it's) in the field.

I'm searching an index for a line that has only an S in it. The only workaround that I can figure out is a loop that repeats the find until the line = "S". Is there a simpler way to do this in LiveCode?

[bn]

Hi JackD,

if the s you are looking for is an uppercase S then you could

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set the caseSensitive to true

if not it gets a bit more involved

Kind regards
Bernd

[dunbarx]

I am not seeing this. And I was worried when I read your post. If I have a field with text in it:

aaa bbb ccc's ddd
eee ccc's ggg
hhh ccc's kkk

find whole "ccc's" finds each instance of "ccc's", complete. You can even find them all in a repeat loop:

on mouseUp
repeat 3
find whole"ccc's" in fld "f44"
wait 44
end repeat
end mouseUp

Craig Newman

[bn]

Hi Craig,

as far as I understand it is the other way around. Jack wants to find a single S. He uses find word. That also finds the s in Craig's. That is the problem.

try

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on mouseUp
   -- set the caseSensitive to true
   set the wholeMatches to true
   find word "S" in field 1   
end mouseUp

on

Craig's
S
s
Sumatra

Kind regards
Bernd

[JackD]

Bernd is correct, I'm searching for a single S. The wholeMatches doesn't make a difference in my stack but caseSensitive does so I'll use that. I really didn't want to use a loop to find it. Thanks Bernd.

[Klaus]

Hi Jack,

you are searching a LINE that consist from a single capital S?
Then use LINEOFFSET:
...
set the wholematches to TRUE
put lineoffset("S",fld 1)
...


Best

Klaus