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From: sysop@stech.UUCP (Jan Harrington)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: "Finding" but not "going"
Message-ID: <441@stech.UUCP>
Date: 14 Feb 88 12:30:27 GMT
Organization: Scholastech, Inc., Waltham, Mass.
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This one's got me stumped.  As I understand, and have always used, the find
command, find locates the first occurrence of a search string and then does
a goto the location of the text.  What if I just want to know where the
text is located rather than actually going to it?

In other words, if I search a multi-line field on a specific card for a
bit of text, all I want to know is the line number where the text is found.
Can that be done?  I definitely don't want to go to that card.  I only want
that line number, which will then be used to retrieve data from another field.

I've been able to do this, by the way, by conducting a sequential search on
the field (using a counter to go from one line to the next).  It works fine,
but isn't terribly efficient.  I'm looking for something faster.  (Should I
write a binary search instead of attempting to use find?)


Jan Harrington, sysop
Scholastech Telecommunications
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