Re: put after

[Richard Gaskin via use-livecode]

Bob Sneidar wrote:

>   put tWord after word 2 of me
...
> The point was that if there was no line 2 it would create one so that
> it had something to put after. Works with lines and items. Does not
> work with words, but as it was explained, though we use the term
> "delimited" when talking about words, it's a different animal.

Thanks.  I was thrown off by "after" - why use "after" if there is 
nothing before?


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Re: put after

[Bob Sneidar via use-livecode]

The point was that if there was no line 2 it would create one so that it had 
something to put after. Works with lines and items. Does not work with words, 
but as it was explained, though we use the term "delimited" when talking about 
words, it's a different animal. 

Bob S


> On Sep 11, 2017, at 16:37 , Richard Gaskin via use-livecode 
> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> With that you wouldn't expect it to create a new line, but to add "Something" 
> to the end of the specified line.


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Re: put after

[Richard Gaskin via use-livecode]

Bob Sneidar wrote:

> put tWord after word 2 of me
>
> Shouldn't that create a second word?

No.  It will append the string tWord after the chunk element specified 
in the target expression, "word 2 of me".


It may be clearer to consider lines:

  put "Something" after line 2 of tContainer

With that you wouldn't expect it to create a new line, but to add 
"Something" to the end of the specified line.


And so it is with other delimiters.

If you want to add a new chunk, you'll have to make that explicit:

  put tWord into word (the number of words of me + 1) of me

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Re: put after

[Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode]

Because a word is defined as 'a number of characters together in a string
separated either or both sides by a white space'. So it doesn't actually
count the white spaces but the number of actual strings of characters
separated by them. The actual glossary term is not fully expressive by
saying "A chunk of text that is delimited by spaces, tabs, or returns."

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On 11 September 2017 at 23:36, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Setting the itemdelimiter to space and using items instead of words would
> certainly work around it, thanks for that tip.
>
> But by way of discussion, when we talk about string manipulation in this
> list/forum, and how words are "delimited" we actually use the word
> "delimiter" to talk about the spaces, with the one difference that there is
> no wordDelimiter property that we can change, while there is for lines and
> items, so that:
>
> put "test" into tString;put "test3" into line 3 of tString;put tString
> produces:
> test
>
> test3
>
> As you would expect. I guess that means that spaces are the bastard
> children of the string manipulation world. :-)
>
> I will file a report anyway as requested.
>
> Bob S
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Re: put after

[Paul Dupuis via use-livecode]

Think about it:

Items ate comma (a single character) delimited, so if a container
contains a single string (no commas) and you "put tString after item 3
of tContainer", LiveCode can logically create an "empty" item 2 and
empty item 3 using ",," and place (concatenate) tString on to the end of
empty item 3.

Words are whitespace (any whitespace) delimited, so if a container
contains a single string and you "put tString after word 3 of
tContainer", LiveCode can not create an empty word. If it tried 2
spaces, that is still a single whitespace delimiter for words. The only
choices are fail (execution error) or concatenate on to the end of the
last word it can find.

xTalk/LiveCode script tries to be a forgiving language from its
Hypercard roots and so it concatenates on to teh end of the last word it
can find.



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Re: put after

[Bob Sneidar via use-livecode]

Setting the itemdelimiter to space and using items instead of words would 
certainly work around it, thanks for that tip. 

But by way of discussion, when we talk about string manipulation in this 
list/forum, and how words are "delimited" we actually use the word "delimiter" 
to talk about the spaces, with the one difference that there is no 
wordDelimiter property that we can change, while there is for lines and items, 
so that:

put "test" into tString;put "test3" into line 3 of tString;put tString
produces: 
test

test3

As you would expect. I guess that means that spaces are the bastard children of 
the string manipulation world. :-)

I will file a report anyway as requested. 

Bob S


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Re: put after

[Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode]

This is exactly what I'd expect as 'item' uses a delimiter. If you had
'space' as the delimiter you could then use:

set the itemdel to space; put "test" into tString; put "test3" into item 3
of tString; put tString
result: test  test3
(with 2 spaces between the two words)

now:
put the number of words in tString
result: 2

And this is still correct. Look at the definitions of item, word,

I would want LC to put "test3" directly after "test" even if I did for some
bizarre reason decide to put it after word 63556 of tString as this would
be expected behavior. I would not want it to throw back an error or place
several spaces between the two words.



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On 11 September 2017 at 23:10, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Curiously then, you can have a string with 1 item, then put tWord into
> item 3 of tString, and it will happily create an empty item 2 so that there
> is an item 3 to put something into. ex.
>
> put "test" into tString;put "test3" into item 3 of tString;put tString
> produces: test,,test3
>
> put "test" into tString;put "test3" into word 3 of tString;put tString
> produces: testtest3
>
> Doesn't that seem like an anomaly to anyone?
>
> Bob S
>
> .
>
>
> > On Sep 11, 2017, at 15:05 , Bob Sneidar via use-livecode <
> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >
> > Actually that was a typo. Put tWord after word 2 of me is what I meant.
> >
> > Bob S
> >
> >
> >> On Sep 11, 2017, at 14:11 , Bob Sneidar via use-livecode <
> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> put tWord after word 2 of me into me
> >
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Re: put after

[Monte Goulding via use-livecode]

> On 12 Sep 2017, at 8:10 am, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode 
>  wrote:
> 
> put "test" into tString;put "test3" into word 3 of tString;put tString
> produces: testtest3
> 
> Doesn't that seem like an anomaly to anyone?

Hmm… yes this should probably fail with an execution error I suspect as it’s 
impossible to do. Can you please report it.

Cheers

Monte
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Re: put after

[Phil Davis via use-livecode]

You already know this, but you can also put tWord after tContainer (or 
after text of me) - no chunk expression needed.


Phil Davis


On 9/11/17 3:05 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote:

Actually that was a typo. Put tWord after word 2 of me is what I meant.

Bob S



On Sep 11, 2017, at 14:11 , Bob Sneidar via use-livecode 
 wrote:

put tWord after word 2 of me into me


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Re: put after

[Bob Sneidar via use-livecode]

Curiously then, you can have a string with 1 item, then put tWord into item 3 
of tString, and it will happily create an empty item 2 so that there is an item 
3 to put something into. ex.

put "test" into tString;put "test3" into item 3 of tString;put tString 
produces: test,,test3

put "test" into tString;put "test3" into word 3 of tString;put tString
produces: testtest3

Doesn't that seem like an anomaly to anyone?

Bob S

. 


> On Sep 11, 2017, at 15:05 , Bob Sneidar via use-livecode 
>  wrote:
> 
> Actually that was a typo. Put tWord after word 2 of me is what I meant. 
> 
> Bob S
> 
> 
>> On Sep 11, 2017, at 14:11 , Bob Sneidar via use-livecode 
>>  wrote:
>> 
>> put tWord after word 2 of me into me
> 
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Re: put after

[Bob Sneidar via use-livecode]

Actually that was a typo. Put tWord after word 2 of me is what I meant. 

Bob S


> On Sep 11, 2017, at 14:11 , Bob Sneidar via use-livecode 
>  wrote:
> 
> put tWord after word 2 of me into me


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Re: put after

[Randy Hengst via use-livecode]

It doesn’t change your question, but you don’t need ‘into me’ at the end each 
line

put "four" into word 1 of me

put space & "help" after word 1 of me



> On Sep 11, 2017, at 4:50 PM, Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode 
>  wrote:
> 
> Put "two" after word 1 of "word"
> 
> result: "wordtwo"
> 
> put "two" after word 2 of "word"
> 
> result: "wordtwo"
> 
> 'after word' basically counts white space. eg, "word,word,word" is counted
> as one word". "word   word" with several spaces counts as
> two words. "word " still counts as one word. There is no word two
> here so it will always append after the same as if it was 'after word 53'!
> 
> But when you use put x *after* word y of z *into* z, with z being "word", x
> being "two" and y being 2, you are using after out of syntax because you
> wouldn't use **after** and **into** in the same 'put' line
> 
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> On 11 September 2017 at 22:11, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode <
> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
>> Okay so if a field only has 1 word, and I state
>> 
>> put tWord after word 2 of me into me
>> 
>> Shouldn't that create a second word? It doesn't it simply appends tWord to
>> the end of word 1.
>> 
>> Bob S
>> 
>> 
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Re: put after

[Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode]

Put "two" after word 1 of "word"

result: "wordtwo"

put "two" after word 2 of "word"

result: "wordtwo"

'after word' basically counts white space. eg, "word,word,word" is counted
as one word". "word   word" with several spaces counts as
two words. "word " still counts as one word. There is no word two
here so it will always append after the same as if it was 'after word 53'!

But when you use put x *after* word y of z *into* z, with z being "word", x
being "two" and y being 2, you are using after out of syntax because you
wouldn't use **after** and **into** in the same 'put' line

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On 11 September 2017 at 22:11, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Okay so if a field only has 1 word, and I state
>
> put tWord after word 2 of me into me
>
> Shouldn't that create a second word? It doesn't it simply appends tWord to
> the end of word 1.
>
> Bob S
>
>
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Re: put after

[Mike Bonner via use-livecode]

seems like it should.  In fact it should work with " into " also, but that
has the same behavior


On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 3:11 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode <
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> Okay so if a field only has 1 word, and I state
>
> put tWord after word 2 of me into me
>
> Shouldn't that create a second word? It doesn't it simply appends tWord to
> the end of word 1.
>
> Bob S
>
>
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put after

[Bob Sneidar via use-livecode]

Okay so if a field only has 1 word, and I state 

put tWord after word 2 of me into me

Shouldn't that create a second word? It doesn't it simply appends tWord to the 
end of word 1. 

Bob S



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