Highlighting searched text

Hi,
I have a little parameterised report, with a search region and and reports region below.
So the user would lets say enter in a surname and press the Go button. Then in the report all of the records returned containing the search text are say coloured Red.
Let's say I search on the the string 'Ander' and press Go, in the results in the report I would see and the surname begining wiht 'Ander' and that text highlighted or in a different colour. Just to show the user what they have searched on.
I really hope I have made some sense.
Many thanks in advance.
Niels

Hi Niels,
To alter the way the returned text looks to the user, you would have to alter the text.
You could try
replace(string_searched, string_searched_for, '<font class="my_highlight_class">'||string_searched_for||'</font>')Regards
Michael
Edited by: MKii on Jul 14, 2009 1:00 PM

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