Of course. It's exactly what Jim points out. And, I believe in either 2.9 or 3.0 there was a change in how words are delimited. It's in one of the change logs. So this makes words "more equal." ;-)
> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:use-revolution- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim Ault > Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 11:13 AM > To: How to use Revolution > Subject: Re: words matter > > I think the rationale is that there is no single character to delimit > words, but rather many possibilities. > [ space tab space.space.tab.space space.cr.space.cr.cr ] > > In the docs > Comments: > A word is delimited by one or more spaces, tabs, or returns, or > enclosed by double quotes. A single word can contain multiple > characters and multiple items, but not multiple lines. > > so using > >> put empty into myText > >> put "aa" into word 1 of myText > >> put "bb" into word 2 of myText > >> answer myText > > > does not really define exactly which separation character or > characters to use. > There is no wordDelimiter. > > Try this riddle > > on testt > put "thisisa" & cr & "wordOnLine1" into wordz > put word 1 of wordz > set the lineDelimiter to Z > put cr & cr after msg > > put word 1 of wordz after msg > put cr & cr after msg > put "thisisaZtimeforallofus" into wordz > put word 1 of wordz after msg > > put cr & cr after msg > put line 1 of wordz after msg > > end testt > > Conclusion is that you can change the lineDelimiter to 'Z' and get a > different line chunk than cr, > but this does not change the definition of a word when it comes to a > cr. > Thus a cr IS always a word separator, but a cr CAN BE a line delimiter. > > Hope this helps. > > Jim Ault > Las Vegas > > On Sep 4, 2009, at 1:30 PM, Jim Bufalini wrote: > > > François Chaplais wrote: > > > >> Is this perfectly rational (revolution-wise of course)? > >> > >> If I do > >> > >> put empty into myText > >> put "aa" into item 1 of myText > >> put "bb" into item 2 of myText > >> answer myText > >> > >> I get (as expected) > >> "aa,bb" > >> > >> while, if I do > >> > >> put empty into myText > >> put "aa" into word 1 of myText > >> put "bb" into word 2 of myText > >> answer myText > >> > >> I get > >> "aabb" > >> (while I would expect "aa bb"). > >> > >> ? > >> > >> > >> this is revStudio 3.5 gm-2 (and maybe my brains are still in HC) > > > > I've confirmed this. Maybe not rational, perfectly or otherwise. ;-) > > But, as > > a simple work around, you can: > > > > set itemdel to space > > put "aa" into item 1 of myText > > put "bb" into item 2 of myText > > > > And you will get "aa bb" > > > > Then put word 1 of myText into myWord will give you "aa" > > > > Aloha from Hawaii, > > > > Jim Bufalini > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > Jim Ault > [email protected] > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
