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ok so i have to know what line and what number a word is in a paragraph when making it a link, is there any way to figure out what number the word is without manually counting

...what number a word is...

..what number the word is...

hmmm bit confused but
How about "wordOffset"?

Simon

And to forward Simon you could use that function to retrieve the line number: Credit for this script belong to Craig

Kind regards.

atout66 wrote:And to forward Simon you could use that function to retrieve the line number:

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function retrieveLineNumber tTxt,tString
   get the number of lines in char 1 to offset(tString,tTxt) of tTxt
   return tTxt -- the line number
end retrieveLineNumber 

This is how we used to have to do it, but with LiveCode 5.5 came the new lineIndex and charIndex functions. Very handy.