Interesting wordOffset behavior

[Alex Tweedly]

try

put word 2 of ("one"&  tab&  "two"&  tab&  "three")

What you are getting is
     word 2 of "one"
followed by
      tab&  "two"&  tab&  "three"


-- Alex.



On 04/12/2012 03:34, Peter M. Brigham wrote:
> 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
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> 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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