Hi,

the follwing test ...

#!perl
use strict;
use warnings;

use Tk;
use vars qw/$TOP/;

$TOP = MainWindow->new();

my $t = $TOP->Scrolled(qw/Text -scrollbars e/)->pack();

$t->insert('0.0', 'try **until **you **succeed');

my $result = $t->search(-forwards,"**",'end');
print "\$result: $result\n";

my $start=$result+.2;
print "\$start: $start\n";

my @chars=$t->get("$start","$start wordend");
print "\nThe word:";
print"\n@chars\n";

MainLoop;
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... with activePerl ...

# aperl -v         

This is perl, v5.6.1 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
(with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)

Copyright 1987-2001, Larry Wall

Binary build 633 provided by ActiveState Corp. http://www.ActiveState.
+com
Built 21:33:05 Jun 17 2002
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... on XP did it, at least i think, as you want.

# aperl textwidget 
$result: 1.4
$start: 1.6

The word:
until
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But are sure whether it's a good idea to do text/string-orientated things with widget-methods. Perhaps it would be easier and more efficient to try approaches with regexes or split.

greetings, tos

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