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

[Barry Levine]

Richard,

Thanks for the  reply. Unfortunately, the "?" isn't one of the 
delimiters recognized by token. Perhaps it will be helpful if I explain 
further. I'm using Transcript to highlight the words in a sentence 
sequentially but I'd like the punctuation -not- to be highlighted when 
this occurs. For example, field 1 contains:

My dog has fleas. Does yours?

How do I tell my stack to hilite the word "yours" (without the "?")?

Thanks,
Barry

On Jun 4, 2004, at 11:31 PM, use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com 
wrote:

> From: Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com>
> Subject: Re: When is a "word" not a "word"?
>
> Try token instead of 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"
>