Hmmm ... what will happen to "there is time,enough for it" - NB no space
before or after the comma.
I think you *want* to find "time" in that case - but I'm not sure if you
will by stripping out all non-letter characters from the word "time,enough".
Would it not be simpler (and faster) to find the the word as a string,
and then verify that the char before is not a letter, and that the char
after it is not a letter ?
but then, what about "find the time-bomb here" ? Is time a word, or
time-bomb a single, hyphenated word ?
Oh well, you choose :-)
-- Alex.
On 21/12/2011 05:10, Jim Hurley wrote:
Think I will try something like this.
Test to see if the word, as a string, is in the text.
If so, then strip out all characters not between "a" and "z" or "A" and "Z"
and then check to see if the stripped-down word is the same as the test word.
That way I will find "time" even if it appears as "(time)" or "time." or
"time," or with quotes on either side, etc.
I wonder what algorithm LC uses in "Find word(s)" to find only words.
Jim Hurley
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