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This one can be done without regex, but at times it can get very complicated and far easier with regex.

And a rant here that a major shortcoming of LiveCode is that it can search for regex but it cannot replace regex. A gap that has been filled with SunnYrex by @thierry. Works great.

I may be misunderstanding but is replaceText what you need?

Hi Jacque

Here I am just trying to find the offset (start and end) of a piece of text (represented by a regular expression). I am not trying to replace it. replacetext will replace the found chunk with something else that I define.

Oh, if you are referring to the last note about no replace option in LiveCode, normally regex can replace a piece of text that is found using replacement strings e.g. \1, \2. This is totally missing in LiveCode. I can give you an example if you like.

I see now, you're talking about back references. I've missed that too.