is among the words AND find words

[Jim Hurley]

Dave,

Ah! Those mighty regular expressions. Soooom day I'll have to study up on them.

Yes that works very nicely. 

The other method (one that I understand ;) ) now boils down to this:

on mouseUp
   put field 1 into tText
   put containsWord("time", tText)
end mouseUp

function containsWord tWord, tList
   replace quote with "" in tList
   replace "." with "" in tList
   return tWord is among the tokens of tList
end containsWord

Jim



> Late to the thread.
> 
> If the purpose is just to see whether the word exists in a string, would this work (using regular expressions)?
> 
> on mouseUp
>    put "Some timely text with time, and more." into tString
>    put "time" into tTarget
>    put containsWord(tTarget, tString) 
> end mouseUp
> 
> function containsWord tWord, tString
>    put "(?i)\b" & tWord & "\b" into tRE
>    return matchText(tString, tRE)
> end containsWord
> 
> "\b" is the regular expression "word boundary" pattern. 
> "(?i)" makes the match case insensitive.
> 
> Cheers
> Dave