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finding a characters number in a text field
charPosToLoc uses a number to define which character in the text field you are querying.
I want to know what number char[x] of line[y] is in a text field.
any ideas?
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JB #2 Re: finding a characters number in a text field
> I want to know what number char[x] of line[y] is in a text field
totalchars = member("mytext").line[1..y- 1].char.count + x
or
totalchars = the number of chars in (line 1 to y - 1 of
member("mytext").text) + x
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