Given this htmlText that may contain Chinese characters and/or some horizontal tabs—
			大胆的强 I want to know if this data contains Chinese characters, that is an entity with 5 numbers between the “#” and the “;” according to google-translate this means "bold and strong" maybe this is a way? set the htmlText of field 1 to "<p>			大胆的强</p>" put the number of truewords of field 1 into field 2 set the itemDelimiter to tab put cr & the number of items of field 1 after field 2 still doesn't tell you if is numbers or not though Kind regards Bernd _______________________________________________ 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