Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: > Jacqi, forgive me for questioning/doubting you, but I really have > trouble believing that, what with the literally thousands of scripts > I wrote in HC over a period of nearly 20 years. I just don't remember > having to strip commas from words when parsing and sorting text. If > you say so, but why would Jim have had to point that out if it is the > "normal" way of doing things? I guess the mind IS the "first" thing > to go. (smile)
One of the difficulties with using HyperCard as a basis for any comparison is that Apple killed it so long ago that it's tied in our memory to the feelings of youth: we forget so much and remember only the good times. :)
IIRC, Scott Raney sighed with deep resignation more than a few times at having to implement word delineation using HC rules.
Punctuation isn't so bad; it's easy to strip those out as stop characters. More challenging, at least conceptually in some cases, is working with quoted strings, which are treated as a single word no matter how many words are between the quotes.
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