Word chunk includes punctuation

Bob Sneidar bobs at twft.com
Wed Aug 15 13:00:55 EDT 2012


I don't expect anything I author to actually work! And yet sometimes it does. I suppose it all balances out. ;-)

On Aug 15, 2012, at 7:33 AM, Peter M. Brigham wrote:

> If I put the following into a field:
>   How many "words are in this field?"
> and then try
>   put the number of words of fld "f"
> I get
>   3
> That is not what *I* would expect. There was a discussion last year on this list of the pros and cons of maintaining the HC convention of regarding anything in quotes as a single word. I still don't think it makes sense. In my universe the answer is 7.
> 
> -- Peter





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