How do I get the word before char x?
Jan Schenkel
janschenkel at yahoo.com
Mon Jun 30 00:36:22 EDT 2008
--- Bill Vlahos <bvlahos at mac.com> wrote:
> How do I get the word before a specific character in
> a field? I can be
> any character in the text field I choose but I can't
> figure out how to
> do something like "get the previous word" from a
> specific character in
> the field.
>
> The only way I figure I could do it would be to
> crawl backwards via a
> repeat loop until I get to a space. This seems
> inelegant and I can
> envision several situations which would trip this up
> (punctuation
> characters, etc.).
>
> Is there a built in function for this?
>
> Thanks,
> Bill Vlahos
>
Try this:
##
put wird -1 of char 1 to x of theText
##
No repeat loop - let the engine figure it out :-)
Jan Schenkel.
Quartam Reports & PDF Library for Revolution
<http://www.quartam.com>
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