OIC good point. But wouldn't it be better simply isolate the comma delimited arguments (usually in parens) in an SQL statement and then deal with them as items? But I suppose there are all kinds of special circumstances that would make a general purpose word function very unwieldy.
Bob On Dec 21, 2011, at 1:17 PM, Pete wrote: > Not really - try parsing out an SQL SELECT statement. Granted that's not > really English text but if you want to make this a general purpose > function, you have to deal with that circumstance. I needed to do that and > ended up going through the text and inserting a space after each comma if > there wasn't already one there. > > On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Bob Sneidar <b...@twft.com> wrote: > >> I suppose it could be argued that everything would break down if the text >> were "now,is,the,time,for,all,goo,men..." but at some point we have to >> presume the absence of the absurd? to have 2 words split by a comma is a >> problem with the data, not with the software. >> >> Bob >> >> >> On Dec 21, 2011, at 12:09 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: >> >>> Yes, but... if the phrase is "now is the time,for all good men" then a >>> search for "all" will return 5 instead of 6. >>> >>> -- >>> -Mark Wieder >>> mwie...@ahsoftware.net >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> >> > > > -- > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
