Unexpected "word" parsing

Peter Haworth pete at lcsql.com
Sat Dec 6 12:01:03 EST 2014


Hi Mike,
I think you were looking at the dictionary entry for "words" - the
definition for "word" is where it mentions the return/tab.

Pete
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On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:

> From the 6.6.2 dictionary, though that line doesn't mention tab and
> return.  Its just not handling quoted parts of a string very well it seems.
>
>
> Summary:
> Used with the sort command, number function, and is among and is not among
> properties to designate space-delimited or quoted parts of a string. Also
> used with the find command to search for one or more entire words.
>
> On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Bob Sneidar <bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com>
> wrote:
>
> > If that is the case, then word 1 return the correct value, word 2 is
> > incorrect. Word boundaries are spaces and there are no spaces so word 1
> > *should* be the whole string and word 2 should be empty.
> >
> > Bob S
> >
> >
> > On Dec 5, 2014, at 13:42 , dunbarx at aol.com<mailto:dunbarx at aol.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > word 1 of a string like myProps["cProp"] returns the whole string. Word 2
> > returns"cProp"]
> >
> > Since cProp is enclosed in double quotes I was expecting:
> >
> > word 1 --> myProps[
> > word 2 --> "cProp"
> > word 3--> ]
> >
> > This is with LC 6.6.2/OSX.
> >
> > Pete
> >
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