From: "Chris Antos (Exchange)" 
Editor.)
why not record a key macro?
//chris
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From:	Frederick Holmes [SMTP:fsholmes@cpcug.org]
> | Sent:	Wednesday, May 07, 1997 8:48 AM
> | To:	tsepro@semware.com
> | Subject:	Find() n times?
> | 
> |   Can one do a Find (with Ctrl-F, or with Find()) a specific number
> |   of times?  One seems to be able to do a replace a specific number
> |   of times, but not a find.  At least I don't seem to find it on
> |   the help screen as an option parameter for Find().  It also
> |   doesn't seem to be a feature of regular expressions.
> |  
> |   I am editing a comma-delimited ASCII database.  I want to go to
> the
> |   nth field in a record.  I want to find the nth occurrence of a
> |   comma, starting at the beginning of a line.  I don't want to have
> |   to count n manually.
> |  
> |   I suppose I could try replacing "," with "," n times, and that
> |   would get me to the comma I want to be at, without actually
> |   changing anything, but that seems to be a kludgy way of going
> |   about it.
> |  
> |   If this isn't a feature, please consider adding it.  I suppose I
> |   could write a macro, but it seems such a useful function, that I
> |   would think it would be built-in.  (I just haven't had to deal
> |   with a comma-delimited database up until now.)
> |  
> |   My usual link to this list is temporarily "broken" so I am trying
> |   a different link.  I sent an "add" message earlier.  Hopefully
> |   it worked.
> |  
> |   Fred Holmes   fsholmes@cpcug.org
> | 
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