Or, you could just check if the character is a quote and increment your counter justly. Seems to me the easiest way to do this.
Chipp Walters CEO, Shafer Walters Group, Inc On May 3, 2010, at 2:36 PM, Devin Asay <devin_a...@byu.edu> wrote: > On May 3, 2010, at 1:22 PM, John Patten wrote: > >> Hi All... >> >> I'm working on a little student utility that changes the text color >> and underlines the individual word in the target field as they hit the >> space bar. I'm wondering how I should handle passages of text that are >> surrounded by quotation marks? >> >> I was taking the text passage and stripping out the quotes to get the >> total number of words in the field. Then using that number and >> reducing it to target the specific words in the field to modify their >> text style. >> >> The quotation marks create a single word out of the phrase, and if I >> attempt to delete a quote and then add it back the total number of >> words in my variable is off. In any case, everything gets all wonky >> when there are quotes in the passage... > > John, > > You might try simply replacing the quotes with "curled" quotes, which Rev > doesn't see as real quote marks. You'd have to account for cross-platform > differences, however. > > Devin > > > Devin Asay > Humanities Technology and Research Support Center > Brigham Young University > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
