List Words from Textarea

[Richard Gaskin]

Here's one from the LiveCode Resource Center included in the product (in 
the RC see Tutorials -> Text ->Listing all the unique words in a piece 
of text):


function uniqueWordsOf theString
   repeat for each word thisWord in theString
     add 1 to wordsList[thisWord] -- array variable
   end repeat
   return the keys of wordsList -- the list of words
end uniqueWordsOf


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