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Posted: **Tue Aug 11, 2009 5:22 pm**

Hello,

I have the following text inside a text field (multiline):

This is first line
and this is the second line
instead, this is the third line!

Well, first character of the second line is the character number 20 (19+return).

Well, I need to know that number "20" when the user select a word in a line.
For example, if the user select/highlight (with the mouse for example) the word "second" (in the second row), I need to get the char position of the first char in the row (in this case I need to get the position of char "a" inside the word "and").

Thank you for your help!

Posted: **Tue Aug 11, 2009 5:32 pm**

Just to explain what I'm doing (maybe you could give me a better idea).

I need to duplicate the selected text just below the position of the selected text.
See this example:

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1> ORIGINAL LINE text selected MORE TEXT
2>                        text selected

In the first line, the user selected "text selected". When I duplicate that text, I need to put it just below the original text - see line 2.

Posted: **Tue Aug 11, 2009 8:10 pm**

Hello,

I solved writing this code (maybe someone could give me better solutions).
I hope this code could help to someone!

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local myAbsCharStartNum, myAbsCharEndNum, mySelectedLineNum, mySelectedText
         
         put word 2 of the selectedChunk into myAbsCharStartNum
         put word 4 of the selectedChunk into myAbsCharEndNum
         
         put word 2 of the selectedLine into mySelectedLineNum
         
         put the selectedText into mySelectedText
         
         // --
         
         local myCharOffsetNum
         
         select char 1 of line mySelectedLineNum of field "fldMain"
         
         put myAbsCharStartNum - (word 2 of the selectedChunk) + 1 into myCharOffsetNum
         put "" into message
         
         put mySelectedText into char myCharOffsetNum to myCharOffsetNum + len(mySelectedText) - 1 of line (mySelectedLineNum+1) of field "fldMain"
         
         // --
         
         select char myCharOffsetNum to myCharOffsetNum + len(mySelectedText) - 1 of line (mySelectedLineNum+1) of field "fldMain"

Please note: field "fldMain" is the field containing text to be duplicated.

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