Livecode defines a word as: "A word is delimited by one or more spaces, tabs, or returns, or is enclosed by double quotes."
Generally this works well but if I have text in which one or more words are contained within either round brackets "(word1 word2)" or square brackets "[word1 word2]" the paren characters are considered part of the word. For example try this from the message box: "answer word 4 of "word1 (word2 word3) [word4 word5]" the result is "[word4" Thus searching for specific word chunks within text fails if the word is contained within a round or square bracket. For example: repeat for each word tWord in "red (blue green) [orange purple]" if tWord is "orange" then answer "found" end repeat Though "orange" is a word (by general definition) in the text, it is not found. The same issue arises if there are certain punctuation characters at the end of a word e.g "orange;" Ideally one could define a set of comma-delimited characters that are considered word delimiters in the same way that we can (temporarily) change the itemDelimiter character: e.g. set the WordDelimiters to "~,(,),{,},[,],;,:,comma, return,space,tab" Similar to the itemDelimiter property, this property would be reset to the default when the handler completes. Perhaps there is already a solution to this that I don't know about? Yes, one can preprocess the input text to remove parens and certain punctuation characters but having the option for LiveCode to recognize them as word delimiters would be more elegant (IMHO). Henry -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Word-delimiters-tp4715709.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode