from here to there

[JB]

Thanks for the code examples and expllanations, Kay.
I learned a whole bunch of things I did not know.

John Balgenorth



On Oct 6, 2014, at 7:31 PM, Kay C Lan <lan.kc.macmail at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 6:37 AM,  <larry at significantplanet.org> wrote:
> 
>> It is sort of strange to me that I want more than 1 word and so I used
>> "words",
> 
> As to how grammatically correct it is I'm sure Richmond could tell us,
> but I like to think of it this way, I'm not actually specifying plural
> what I'm doing is specifying a start point and an end point and these
> are always singular.
> 
> char 1 to char 21
> word 5 to word -2
> 
> this is then conveniently shorthanded to:
> 
> item 2 to 22
> token 34 to -9
> byte -8 to -1
> 
> Also, if I ask myself, how do I get every word from a variable - note
> I've used the singular, so the answer is, word 1 to -1  --again I use
> the singular
> 
> And just in case it comes up, remember a word in LC includes any
> punctuation that may follow what we typically think of as a word, in
> the message box
> 
> put "this is, a word" into tStore
> put word 1 to 2 of tStore into msg
> 
> if you don't want the punctuation you might find trueword is what you need
> 
> put "this is, a word" into tStore
> put trueword 1 to 2 of tStore into msg
> 
> HTH
> 
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