On May 26, 2011, at 3:11 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote
How embarrassing !!
I tested this in my message box, and had a typo (almost invisible
space) in the input data.
Sorry Jim (and Keith).
Nah, Alex, not embarrassing at all.
This is how everyone learns some of the odd rules.
This is probably only the second time you made a typo after all these
years on the list.
and I can't remember the first one :-)
So many of us enjoy quickly answering questions and solving puzzles,
it is natural that bloopers will happen.
I think the key is to have fun with them.
Jim Ault
Las Vegas
On 26/05/2011 04:39, Jim Ault wrote:
On May 25, 2011, at 8:41 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote:
Beware this will get the (possibly) wrong result for some data.
For instance, a comma will terminate a word, so
a,b def
will give you a key of "aTABb def"
rather than a key of "a,TABdef"
Punctuation is not considered a word delimiter, so the comma will
remain attached to the string.
put word 1 of "a,b def" into msg
-- I get "a,b" using Rev 3.5
In fact, if the words have trailing commas, the punctuation is
considered part of the word
put word 2 of "He spoke, therefore he was heard"
=> the 6 chars 'spoke,'
put word 2 of "nice ,,and,,,,,,,,,, warm"
=> ,,and,,,,,,,,,,
put word 2 of "really ...-and_,;]/><? truly"
=> ...-and_,;]/><?
Hope this helps
Jim Ault
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