the char number of char 1 of word x

[Randall Lee Reetz]

I need the syntax to get the exact number of chars up until the first char of another chunk expression (word thscount of thsstring).

-----Original Message-----
From: "Jim Ault" <JimAultWins at yahoo.com>
To: "How to use Revolution" <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: 12/29/2007 3:31 PM
Subject: Re: the char number of char 1 of word x

On 12/29/07 2:33 PM, "Randall Lee Reetz" <randall at randallreetz.com> wrote:

> Ok, my fault, i'll tey to be more specific.  Every char in a string can be
> rrferenced by its count in the string.  Char 5 of "my love" is "o".  So if i
> want the char count of char 1 of word 2 of that same string i should get 4.
> How do i construct an argument for the count of a char as referenced by
> another chunk description (other than char)?

Your explanation is confusing.
Show some more examples of what you want.
There are only words, items, lines as chunks, so I am not sure what you mean
by 'other chunk description'.

What kind of data/text are you working with?
-- user input, published data, paragraphs, inventory lists
--   music titles, album names, etc

Jim Ault
Las Vegas
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Bill Marriott" <wjm at wjm.org>
> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Sent: 12/29/2007 1:17 PM
> Subject: Re: the char number of char 1 of word x
> 
> Hi Randall,
> 
>> How do I get the char count (number) of the first char of a  particular
>> word (say "word 4") of a string?
> 
> do you mean,
> the charToNum of char 1 of word x of myString


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