Parsing the long ID or long Name

[Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami]

@ mark … duh… no you are  not underthinking… I was over thinking…sure..that works.

@ Alex  

confirmed:  

put format ("group \"word with spaces\"")  into tVar; put word 2 of tVar

returns "word with spaces" 

Wow.. that's both unintuitive/unexpected and useful new knowledge!

Thanks

This use case turns out that… I can use 

the short name of the owner of the target… though that's not universally useful.

On 7/26/16, 1:44 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of Mark Wieder" wrote:


BR


    if "listen-music" is in tTargetName then...
    
    Am I missing something critical here?
    I figure I must be underthinking this.