> > 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
You could change them all to single quotes and then leave it like
that - then word 4 etc gives the right answer. Depends on how
attached you are to double quotes.
Mike Yates
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