Word chunk includes punctuation

[Peter M. Brigham]

On Aug 15, 2012, at 7:23 AM, Jim Hurley wrote:

> Just diving in I tried:    put the number of words in tText into msg box
> 
> No matter what I put into tText by way of quotes or tabs or punctuation, I always seem to get what I expect.
> 
> It would be nice if someone would post a line or two of text, the quintessential challenge, to demonstrate where the problems lie.

If I put the following into a field:
   How many "words are in this field?"
and then try
   put the number of words of fld "f"
I get
   3
That is not what *I* would expect. There was a discussion last year on this list of the pros and cons of maintaining the HC convention of regarding anything in quotes as a single word. I still don't think it makes sense. In my universe the answer is 7.

-- Peter

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