char as word boundary

Neville Smythe neville.smythe at optusnet.com.au
Fri Jun 3 18:49:08 EDT 2022


Jean-Jacques

In 9.6.8

 the number of chars of (numtochar(32)& numtochar(202)&numtochar(32)& numtochar(202)&numtochar(32)) = 5

As it should be.

Did you mean the number of words?

But then 

 the number of words of (numtochar(32)& numtochar(202)&numtochar(32)& numtochar(202)&numtochar(32)) = 0 (in 9.6.8)

As it should be.

Char 202 is unicode for an invisible char marking a paragraph end I believe, I think rarely used until recently. It has been turning up in web sites causing difficulty for old parsers.


Neville

> 
> Hypercard and livecode 6.7:  the number of chars (numtochar(32)& numtochar(202)&numtochar(32)& numtochar(202)&numtochar(32)) = 2
> livecode 9.67                      :   the number of chars (numtochar(32)& numtochar(202)&numtochar(32)& numtochar(202)&numtochar(32)) = 0
> 
> Is it a change or a bug considering now numtochar(202) as word boundary, as it is with numtochar(32)
> 



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