This is the essence on Livecode! This is why we love it! Shouldn’t we rebrand it? How about Lovecode?? …..
Never mind. 😂 Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 28, 2023, at 04:55, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > 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! > > _______________________________________________ > 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
