When is a "word" not a "word"?

[Richard Gaskin]

Barry Levine wrote:
> I may be misinterpreting things or simply have an erroneous expectation:
> 
> Let's say you have a field containing the text "Is this something?"
> 
> Double-click on the last word and the nine letters that make up the word 
> are selected. That seems to be what you would expect. Now open the 
> message box and type "the last word of field 1". What do you get? That's 
> right; the "?" is also part of the last word.
> 
> So I guess what I'm looking for is the Transcript equivalent of 
> double-clicking a word. There's the "clickChunk" but that implies I've 
> actually clicked on the word. This needs to be done independent of any 
> mouseClicks.
> 
> How would I describe: "the last word minus the last char of field 1"

Try token instead of word.

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