Constrain word delimiter to space only
Richard Gaskin
ambassador at fourthworld.com
Sat Sep 17 17:56:29 EDT 2016
Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote:
> if you do this
>
> put "He said, " & quote & "LiveCode has a very supportive community."
> & quote into tQuote
> put word 3 of the quote
>
>
> you get ""LiveCode has a very supportive community."
>
> is there a way to contrain the word delimiter to not include the
> straight quote as a delimiter?
>
> from an editor's point of view, this has 8 words not 3
>
> He said, "LiveCode has a very supportive community."
The trueWord chunk type was added early in the v7 series to take
advantage of the Unicode lib's parsing rules that account for quotes and
punctuation.
e.g.:
put trueWord 3 of tQuote
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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