The token keyword works with "time," and "time-bomb" (assuming you want to find just "time"). I've found it to be really useful in a number of circumstances in parsing out chunks of text from strings that don't fit the standard word model - like SQL statements which can include commas, parentheses, quotes, single quotes, and periods. Many punctuation marks are treated as separate tokens as well as anything delimited by a space, return, tab, or semicolon. Only drawback is that there is no tokenOffset function so you have to write your own using a repeat loop to go through the string. Pete
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 2:15 AM, Alex Tweedly <a...@tweedly.net> 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<http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode> > > -- Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> _______________________________________________ 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
