from here to there

[larry at significantplanet.org]

I'm echoing John:
Thanks Kay for the detailed explanation.
That really helps us understand the LC syntax so much better!
Larry

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kay C Lan" <lan.kc.macmail at gmail.com>
To: "How to use LiveCode" <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2014 8:31 PM
Subject: Re: from here to there


> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 6:37 AM,  <larry at significantplanet.org> wrote:
>
>> It is sort of strange to me that I want more than 1 word and so I used
>> "words",
>
> As to how grammatically correct it is I'm sure Richmond could tell us,
> but I like to think of it this way, I'm not actually specifying plural
> what I'm doing is specifying a start point and an end point and these
> are always singular.
>
> char 1 to char 21
> word 5 to word -2
>
> this is then conveniently shorthanded to:
>
> item 2 to 22
> token 34 to -9
> byte -8 to -1
>
> Also, if I ask myself, how do I get every word from a variable - note
> I've used the singular, so the answer is, word 1 to -1  --again I use
> the singular
>
> And just in case it comes up, remember a word in LC includes any
> punctuation that may follow what we typically think of as a word, in
> the message box
>
> put "this is, a word" into tStore
> put word 1 to 2 of tStore into msg
>
> if you don't want the punctuation you might find trueword is what you need
>
> put "this is, a word" into tStore
> put trueword 1 to 2 of tStore into msg
>
> HTH
>
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