Craig, This is exactly what I was needing.
“the number of words in char 1 to char x of the field" does it. Thank you!!! Peter > On Mar 15, 2020, at 2:48 PM, dunbarx--- via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Hi. > I may not really understand what you want, but doesn't the "Find string" > variant solve your problem? > If you have a field 1 with "cat" on line 1, with "cât" on line 2 and "cat" on > line 3, that is, the line 2 "cat" has charToNum(137) in place of the standard > "a". > on mouseUpfind string numToChar(137) in fld 1put the number of words in char > 1 to word 2 of the foundChunk of fld 1 into tempanswer "Word" && temp && > "="&& word temp of fld 1end mouseUp > The point being that once you have the result of "find String", you can > engineer all the other stuff you need, such as the words that contain the odd > char, the lines they reside in, etc. > Craig > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> > To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> > Cc: Peter Bogdanoff <bogdan...@me.com> > Sent: Sat, Mar 14, 2020 7:48 pm > Subject: Finding words with diacriticals > > Hi, > > I have a text search that in which I’m trying to improve the UI. > > I have this text: > > Edgard Varèse (Poème électronique) was a pioneer in the application of tape > recording technology to composition. > > The search database, built with Scott McDonald’s rrpSearch plugin, can only > be searched using the exact characters. So, I’m building a supplementary > array of words with alternate spellings that the user might type in the > search box. I would reference the array to get an equivalent word and so > provide the user with a usable result. > > So if the user types in “poeme” — I would find “poeme” in the array and its > equivalent “Poème” and I would actually search for “Poème” — and the user > would get a result that included “Poème”. > > > So I want to build this array of word equivalents. The search database is > built by rrpSearch from text on cards, so I have to go back to these cards to > get my data. I’m using the find command to search cards to find every > instance of “è” or “é” or “ü” or “î” or whatever. There are many non-English > words in the text. The foundText function should give me the words that > contain that character—except it doesn’t in every case. It only finds words > that BEGIN with the search text. So > > électronique — found (char begins the word) > Varèse — not found (char is in middle of the word) > Poème — not found (char is in middle of the word) > > I’m using “find” and “the foundText” which returns the whole word that > contains the search character. No other form of find will return the whole > word. The dictionary for foundText: > > <For example, the command find "hurl" can find any word that starts with the > string "hurl", such as "hurling" or "hurler". In this case, the entire word > --not just the portion specified in the find command --is surrounded by a > box, and the foundText returns the entire word.> > > Is there another relatively simple way to get the whole word in which the > desired characters live? There are dozens of fields on thousands of cards to > search. > > (I realize that there are far better ways to handle a search, and in the > future, I will have a database that I will design myself--but not yet.) > > Thanks, > > Peter Bogdanoff > ArtsInteractive > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
