> 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?
> --Richard MacLemale
I know you said you don't want to modify the field's text, but the way I
handle this seems (to me) a very slight modification, maybe it will to
you as well: I use smart quotes.
It would seem that smart quotes can't be emailed, so I can't show an
example. But if:
The man said, "I cannot live on bread alone."
Were written with smart quotes (the curly kind, which are different for
the start and end of quotes), then the fourth word would be "I, including
the smart quote. Then you just strip it of various bits that will stick
to actual letters (like the smart quote, for example).
gc
Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"C.D. Caterpillar teaches kids how to read, not how to watch cartoons."
