Interesting wordOffset behavior

[Peter M. Brigham]

Yeah, it doesn't really behave properly. If you do 
  put word 2 of "one" & tab & "two" & tab & "three"
you get
  <tab>two<tab>three
and
  put word 2 of "one" & cr & "two" & cr & "three"
gives you
  <cr>two<cr>three

It really should consider any white space as a word delimiter. Sigh. Probably Richard Gaskin can tell us the history behind this, clearly a leftover from HC. Meanwhile you can roll your own:

function whichWord tString, wordNbr
   replace cr with space in tString
   replace tab with space in tString
   return word wordNbr of tString
end whichWord

-- Peter

Peter M. Brigham
pmbrig at gmail.com
http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig


On Dec 3, 2012, at 9:28 PM, Robert Sneidar wrote:

> Wordoffset returns space delimited data. 
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> On Dec 3, 2012, at 10:36 AM, Peter Haworth wrote:
> 
>> I'm finding that wordOffset treats comment chars as a word even if they
>> are immediately followed by another character.
>> 
>> For example:
>> 
>> wordOffset("--","repeat with x=1 to 100 --check something")
>> 
>> ...returns 6.  I would have expected it to return zero since there is
>> no occurrence of "--" surrounded by spaces or quotes.
>> 
>> To add to the plot:
>> 
>> put word 6 of "repeat with x=1 to 100 --check something"
>> 
>> ...returns "--check"
>> 
>> And:
>> 
>> wordOffset("--","repeat with x=1 to 100 -- check something")
>> 
>> ...also returns 6 (there's a space between the comment chars and "check" in
>> this example).
>> 
>> It turns out that this is useful in the context of what I'm doing but
>> whenever I run into what I think is unexpected behavior like this, I'm wary
>> of using it in case it's actually a bug that might get fixed at some point
>> and break my code.
>> 
>> Am I being over cautious?
>> 
>> Pete
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