problem with counting words

[larry at significantplanet.org]

Hi Terry,
Here is the real problem.  I don't know much.
I'm sitting here assuming that a word is a word, regardless of whether it is 
inside quotes.
Now I find out there is trueword.  It's just hard for me to reconcile 
LiveCode's boast of "simple English" and stuff like this.
The other thing I don't understand is this:  Is there any way to search the 
dictionary on the text of the dictionary and not just on the keywords?
If there is a way to do that, I don't know how.  It would help a lot.
Thanks,
Larry
P.S. That would be a cool thing if they added a wordDel function.  It would 
be REALLY cool if people could write their own functions and then add them 
to their personal LC dictionary.  Probably there is a way to do that, but 
again, I don't know how.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Terence Heaford" <t.heaford at btinternet.com>
To: "How to use LiveCode" <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2014 1:38 PM
Subject: Re: problem with counting words


Wouldn’t it be good if RunRev could add WordDelimiter to the dictionary, 
would that solve the problem.

I believe it exists in SuperCard.

I thought LiveCode was a more modern version of SuperCard and would surely 
have this option.

All the best

Terry

On 12 Oct 2014, at 20:20, Jerry Jensen <jhj at jhj.com> wrote:

> the itemDel is the character that delimits ITEMS, not words.

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