Perl Tk Text Selection

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Dear monks, this is surely a silly question, but I'm having some problems in finding an answer. I'm using the TK::Text widget and I need to find the position (indexes) of the selected text. To find the selected text is as easy as this:

$text->getSelected
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But what about the exact positions? What I want to do is to format the selected portion of text, which is easy ... if I only know the positions of the selected text. I read the (huge) manual coming with Text, but didn't find any option. Thanks for pointing me to the light

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Re: Perl Tk Text Selection by Anonymous Monk on Mar 24, 2016 at 19:40 UTC
I came up with the solution. Just use the indexes `'sel.first' and 'sel.last'` [download]	[reply] [d/l]