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From: matth@kink.CNA.TEK.COM (Matt Harcourt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: find command -  2 questions
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Date: 2 Jan 90 19:29:53 GMT
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Two questions from a beginning hypercard programmer...

Is it possible to limit the scope of the find command to a set of
fields rather than a single field?

And a related question,
When using the find command, is it possible (within the script) to
determine where the text that was found is located?  For instance, if
I'm searching a particular field for the occurance of some text I can
tell if the next occurance appears on a different card or background,
but can I determine if the next occurance found is before/after the
previous occurance found if both are on the same card?  What I'm
trying to do is detect when the find "wraps" around to the first
occurance of some text on a card which contains multiple occurances
(and the only occurances) of the text.

Thanks,
-Matt

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