is among the words AND find words

[Jim Hurley]

Thanks Bob, Good thought, but it still doesn't work.

The script:

on mouseUp
   put "now is the time, for all good men." into tText
   set wholematches to true
   --set wholematches to false
   put wordOffset("time", tText) into temp1
   put wordOffset("time," , tText) into temp2
end mouseUp

shows 0 for temp1 and 4 for temp2. The comma in "time," is need to get a match.

What I need is

   put wordOffset("time", "Now is the time, for all good men.") 

to show 4 when wholeMatches is true

It appears that there is no way in LiveCode to find whole words in a variable  reliably.

Wish there were.

Jim Hurley



> From: Bob Sneidar <bobs at twft.com>
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> Not sure if wholeMatches affects the find command, but if you set wholeMatches to true and then use wordOffset("time",field "myField") then I think you will get the results you are looking for. wordOffset() returns 0 when it fails to find a match. 
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> Bob
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> On Dec 20, 2011, at 4:42 PM, Jim Hurley wrote:
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>> If the sentence:
>> 
>> "Now is the time, for all good men."
>> 
>> is within the field "myField" , then
>> 
>>  find word "time" in field "myField" 
>> 
>> is successful. The word "time" is found despite the fact that it is not delimited with spaces on either side.
>> 
>> But
>> 
>>  "time" is among the words of "Now is the time, for all good men." 
>> 
>> returns false, since "is among the words" reads the comma after "time".  It requires the spaces on either side of "time" as delimiters.
>> 
>> Has this come up before and has it been suggest that this be an enhancement?
>> 
>> That is to say, it would be helpful if "is among the words" and "find word(s)" behave the same with respect to the space delimiter.
>> 
>> Or am I missing something?
>> 
>> Jim Hurley
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