How do I get the word before char x?

[Jan Schenkel]

--- Bill Vlahos <bvlahos at mac.com> wrote:
> How do I get the word before a specific character in
> a field? I can be  
> any character in the text field I choose but I can't
> figure out how to  
> do something like "get the previous word" from a
> specific character in  
> the field.
> 
> The only way I figure I could do it would be to
> crawl backwards via a  
> repeat loop until I get to a space. This seems
> inelegant and I can  
> envision several situations which would trip this up
> (punctuation  
> characters, etc.).
> 
> Is there a built in function for this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Bill Vlahos
> 

Try this:
##
put wird -1 of char 1 to x of theText
##

No repeat loop - let the engine figure it out :-)

Jan Schenkel.

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