Find some text characters

[jonathandlynch at gmail.com]

If the number of chars in tItem = 8 then...

You always have three extra chars, so that should be right.

If you need an itemdelimiter, use "&" and check if the number of chars in each item = 7

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> On Jul 17, 2017, at 5:40 PM, Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Is there a easy way to do this?:
> 
> Given this htmlText that may contain Chinese characters and/or some horizontal tabs—
> 
> 			大胆的强
> 
> I want to know if this data contains Chinese characters, that is an entity with 5 numbers between the “#” and the “;”
> 
> Only data containing 5 numbers between the “#” and the “;” would return true. Having ONLY "	” but not the other would return false. 
> 
> Thanks for suggestions!
> 
> Peter Bogdanoff
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