rant: truewordOffset

[Mark Wieder]

On 4/20/21 6:00 AM, Niggemann, Bernd via use-livecode wrote:
> Mark Wieder wrote
> You can't just say
> 
> put truewordOffset("font", tText) into tOffset
> because it might encounter "fontTable" first.
> 
> 
> If I set wholematches to true it works for me

Unfortunately not here. Even with wholematches true

truewordOffset("BT", tText)
also catches instances of
"btn"
as well as "bt"

I have to check the result:

put truewordOffset(tValue, tText) into tPos
if trueword tPos of pText is tValue then
   # we found a trueword
end if

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  Mark Wieder
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