sysop@stech.UUCP (Jan Harrington) (02/14/88)
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 ihnp4!husc6!amcad!stech!sysop or allegra!stech!sysop ******************************************************************************** Miscellaneous profundity: "No matter where you go, there you are." Buckaroo Banzai ********************************************************************************
twakeman@hpcea.CE.HP.COM (Teriann Wakeman) (02/17/88)
I think that you are stuck with Hypercard performing an autimatic goto. you can emulate what you want by something on the order of: lockscreen set cursor to 4 push card do your find if the result is not empty then answer "couldn't find whatever" with "oh well..." exit event end if put your line number into a globalvariable or a field pop card end event Sorry, this isn't exactly what you asked for but just an emulation of it. TeriAnn Wakeman