Thanks, Bob. That works. My bad
Roger
> On Dec 18, 2024, at 8:16 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> ITEM 2 not WORD 2.
>
> Bob S
>
>
>> On Dec 17, 2024, at 7:07 PM, Roger Guay via use-livecode
>> wrote:
>>
>> Oops. I take it back. It does not work.
>>
>> set the itemDel
ITEM 2 not WORD 2.
Bob S
> On Dec 17, 2024, at 7:07 PM, Roger Guay via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> Oops. I take it back. It does not work.
>
> set the itemDel to “^"
> put char 3 of word 2 of "((1234…)^1/x)”
>
> returns blank
>
> Bummer!
>
>> On Dec 17, 2024, at 6:54 PM, Roger
Thanks to Bernd, Scott and Rick for helping me out. I have never run into token
before and learned so much from Bernd’s use of it here.
I invariably learn valuable lessons from this list. . . ChatGPT, not so much.
Cheers,
Roger
> On Dec 18, 2024, at 2:02 AM, scott--- via use-livecode
> wrot
Roger, I don’t believe that setting the itemDel will change how WORDs break. It
will allow you to find ITEM 2:
^1/x)
I was getting char 3 of item 2 and that would work as long as x was a single
digit (which you implied originally) but Bernd’s solution is more robust (as
usual!) because it wi
Hi Roger,
This does work:
Please note the quotes, in your mail it was curly quotes that do not work apart
from asking for "word" instead of "token".
on mouseUp
set the itemDel to "^"
put token 3 of item 2 of "((1234…)^1/x)" into field 1
set the itemDelimiter to "/"
put cr & toke
