On 7/27/2023 5:06 PM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote:
Oh those pesky chunks which don’t ‘cover’ the target string (which is actually
all of them except codeunit/point/char come to think of it). I should have run
through a few more examples in my head before posting….
Alternative attempt:
Put null into word N to -1 of S
Delete codeunit (codeunitoffset(null, S) to -1 of S
Return the number of chars in S + 1
The problem before was the chars which do not form part of the last chunk and
remain after deletion.
The above puts in a sentinel char which can be searched for to find where the
requested chunk started.
Second time lucky? ;)
Second time's the charm. That works for all chunk types tested
(trueWord, sentence, paragraph)! Thank you!
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