Interesing bug with word elements

[André.Bisseret]

Le Saturday, 11 Mar 2006, à 00:20 Europe/Paris, Arthur Urban a écrit :

> The following code produces what I think is a bug:
>
>   put "a" into word 1 of test
>   put "b" into word 2 of test
>
> Examining test shows "ab" in word 1, not two words as requested. If 
> you change the code from "word" to "line" or to "item" Rev correctly 
> produces the lines or items needed to fulfill the command. I'm seeing 
> this on Win32, don't know about OSX.

Hi Arthur,
On my Mac G4 0SX, 10.2.8 I get the same. Putting "a" in line 5 of test 
creates 4 empty lines before ; it works  for items too. But not with 
words :

In msg :
put "a" into word 1 of test
put "b" into word 2 of test
put "c" into word 3 of test
put test --> abc
put word 1 of test -> abc

So it's just like you had written :
put "a" into word 1 of test
put "b" after word 1 of test
put test -> ab

Now :
put "b" into word 2 of test
put "a" into word 1 of test
put test -> a

And :
put "b" into  word 2 of test
put "a" into word 2 of test
put test -> ba

Well,  fortunately :-)
put "a " into word 1 of test -- space after a (could be a solution ?)
put "b" into word 2 of test
put test -> a b
put cr & word 1 of test after msg -> a
put cr & word 2 of test after msg -> b

Likely a lot of more possible amusing tests !;-)))
>
> Bug, or no?
Could be not, if it is documented as Peter said ; I did'nt read this 
documentation ;
but I imagine it was difficult to explain that,  if "test" includes "a" 
as word 1, putting "b" in word 2 appends "b" after  "a" in word 1  :-)))

Best regards from Grenoble
André