I think this underscores the need for the words keyword to be upgraded to reflect real text. For instance, word delimiters could be a property containing all the characters which might be word delimiters, all the punctuations for example. I don't know how you would treat a hyphen.
Upon thinking about it, I am not sure what the application would be for finding specific words in an english (or any other languages) phrase. It is useful for finding keywords in a Livecode statement for sure. Bob On Dec 21, 2011, at 2:15 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
