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I'm totally new, so please bear with me. I have searched this community for a solution to this very simple problem, but I can't find what I need.

I have a simple script that does a cut and paste operation to move part of a line of text to another location. In this case it is from normal text to a popup in an HTML Help application. The part I have done is to select the text starting from a cursor location to the end of the line, and then use keystrokes to open the pull-down menus to place this text in the popup. This part all works fine.

What I can't figure out how to do is to search the line of text for the character where the text cutting begins. I don't want to do a whole file full at once, because I want to take a second to check that everything looks right before going on to the next line.

The code is attached. All I need is to add a search function for the » character at the beginning of the script.

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M Becker

What are you searching? Are you searching the text document itself? Are you searching the Clipboard?

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Text document.

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M Becker

Well » isn't a non-typical character so you should be able to search the document with it well enough. Are you attempting to copy everything after the » or just certain text? If you're using Notepad to view text files here's an idea:



For reference:

ControlGetText
InStr()
SubStr()

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Hmmm.... Well, this does something, but not quite what I need. Here's what my script does for me. It's ridiculously simple:



All I really need to do is to get the cursor from where it is in the document to the next instance of the character ».

I use this kind of script very often, so if I could get one example down, I'd be set for life.

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M Becker

I figured out how to make this work. It was too simple.

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M Becker