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From: dlugose@uncecs.edu (Dan Dlugose)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: find command -  2 questions
Message-ID: <1990Jan4.202141.3812@uncecs.edu>
Date: 4 Jan 90 20:21:41 GMT
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In article <5026@tekred.CNA.TEK.COM> matth@kink.CNA.TEK.COM (Matt Harcourt) writes:
>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.
>

   I use a script for replacing strings only on the card I'm looking at.
The meat of it is:
   put the name of this card into startc
   repeat
       find targ in field x
       if the foundfield is not empty then
           if "bkgnd field 1" is the foundfield then
           if startc = the name of this card

Dan Dlugose
UNC Educational Computing Service