On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Bill Vlahos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I get the word before a specific character in a field? I can be any > character in the text field I choose but I can't figure out how to do > something like "get the previous word" from a specific character in the > field. > > The only way I figure I could do it would be to crawl backwards via a repeat > loop until I get to a space. This seems inelegant and I can envision several > situations which would trip this up (punctuation characters, etc.). >
put the number of words in char 1 to x of fld "Data" into tWordNum put word tWordNum - 1 into tPrevWord HTH, Sarah _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
