rant: truewordOffset
Mark Wieder
ahsoftware at sonic.net
Tue Apr 20 12:21:16 EDT 2021
On 4/20/21 9:12 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote:
> Works fine here too:
>
> set the wholeMatches to true
> put trueWordOffset("BT", "foo btn")
> => 0
>
> set the wholeMatches to false
> put trueWordOffset("BT", "foo btn")
> => 2
>
> Warmest Regards,
>
> Mark.
>
> P.S. Remember wholeMatches is a handler-local property not global - I
> only mention that because it sounds like it isn't actually the value you
> think when you are calling trueWordOffset.
>
nvm.
Actually this was a side effect of another function.
The truewordOffset function is indeed doing what it should, and I'm
quite relieved to find that this was just an error in my own code.
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Mark Wieder
ahsoftware at gmail.com
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