> Can anyone help with this one?
> If you have a field that says the following:
> The man said, "I cannot live on bread alone."
> ...and you ask MetaCard for word 4 of the field, you get the whole
> entire text string between the quotes ("I cannot live on bread
> alone."). Obviously this is not a "word", it's a phrase. Is there
> a way to get MetaCard to stop insisting that several words between
> quotation marks is one word? I do not want to modify the field's
> text to do this, nor do I wish to put the field into a variable and
> then delete the quotes from the variable... I just want MetaCard to
> recognize "I cannot live on bread alone." as 6 words, not one!
> Anyone? Anyone?
About the only thing I can think of would be to use the replace
command to change all the quote characters to something else, then do
the chunk test, then change them back.
Regards,
Scott
> --Richard MacLemale
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Regards,
Scott
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MetaCard: You know, there's an easier way to do that...
