Re: Find some text characters

[Jonathan Lynch via use-livecode]

If the number of chars in tItem = 8 then...

You always have three extra chars, so that should be right.

If you need an itemdelimiter, use "&" and check if the number of chars in each 
item = 7

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> On Jul 17, 2017, at 5:40 PM, Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode 
> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Is there a easy way to do this?:
> 
> Given this htmlText that may contain Chinese characters and/or some 
> horizontal tabs—
> 
> &#9;&#9;&#9;&#22823;&#32966;&#30340;&#24378;
> 
> I want to know if this data contains Chinese characters, that is an entity 
> with 5 numbers between the “#” and the “;”
> 
> Only data containing 5 numbers between the “#” and the “;” would return true. 
> Having ONLY "&#9;” but not the other would return false. 
> 
> Thanks for suggestions!
> 
> Peter Bogdanoff
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