How do I get the word before char x?

[Bill Vlahos]

Brilliant Sarah and Jan.

Thank you,
Bill Vlahos

On Jun 29, 2008, at 9:36 PM, Jan Schenkel wrote:

> --- 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.
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