Select and copy before some text

[richmond62]

What am I missing?

I have a field called "PICC" that conatins text including the chunk "acTL".

I wish to copy ALL the text before the chunk "acTL" and dump it into another field.

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on mouseUp
   find string "acTL" in fld "PICC"
   set the traversalOn of fld "PICC" to true
select before foundChunk of fld "PICC" --this is a load of rubbish and does not work
   copy the selected text
   paste into fld "SOMEWHEREelse"
   end mouseUp

[FourthWorld]

Your could set the itemdel to "acTL", and put item 1 into the other field.

[richmond62]

Your could set the itemdel to "acTL", and put item 1 into the other field.

Brilliant. Thanks.

[dunbarx]

Richard's way is the best way, in my opinion.

But to follow the thread of your original thinking. if you have two fields and a button, and some text with your "acTL" buried in field 1, and this in the button script:

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on mouseUp
get offset("actl",fld 1)
put char 1 to (it - 1) of fld 1 into fld 2
 end mouseUp

Craig