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I am creating a new syntax file but I am having problems where a variable contains a period or a dollar sign (. $). If the variable name contains one of the keywords such as DATA and the variable name is TOP.DATA, the DATA portion of the variable is highlighted.

How do I stop that from happening?

Steve,

Try adding a dummy keyword, such as "a.b". That will force TextPad to treat "." as part of keywords, so it will look for a match on "TOP.DATA", rather than "TOP" and "DATA". Obviously, this can cause side effects, if keywords can actually be bounded by "." in your language.

Keith MacDonald
Helios Software Solutions