is among the words AND find words

[Bob Sneidar]

OIC good point. But wouldn't it be better simply isolate the comma delimited arguments (usually in parens) in an SQL statement and then deal with them as items? But I suppose there are all kinds of special circumstances that would make a general purpose word function very unwieldy. 

Bob

On Dec 21, 2011, at 1:17 PM, Pete wrote:

> Not really - try parsing out an SQL SELECT statement.  Granted that's not
> really English text but if you want to make this a general purpose
> function, you have to deal with that circumstance.  I needed to do that and
> ended up going through the text and inserting a space after each comma if
> there wasn't already one there.
> 
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Bob Sneidar <bobs at twft.com> wrote:
> 
>> I suppose it could be argued that everything would break down if the text
>> were "now,is,the,time,for,all,goo,men..." but at some point we have to
>> presume the absence of the absurd? to have 2 words split by a comma is a
>> problem with the data, not with the software.
>> 
>> Bob
>> 
>> 
>> On Dec 21, 2011, at 12:09 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
>> 
>>> Yes, but... if the phrase is "now is the time,for all good men" then a
>>> search for "all" will return 5 instead of 6.
>>> 
>>> --
>>> -Mark Wieder
>>> mwieder at ahsoftware.net
>> 
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