On Aug 13, 2012, at 11:10 AM, James Hale wrote: > Is this a bug?
No, it's a 'convention'… it mimics the way that HyperCard recognized a "word"; as stated in the Dictionary under "word": "A word is delimited by one or more spaces, tabs, or returns, or enclosed by double quotes. A single word can contain multiple characters and multiple items, but not multiple lines." > If not, has anyone got a workaround that doesn't require me testing for a > punctuation character at the end of every word or replacing them all with > spaces? As Mark pointed out, the use of "token" helps separate the wheat from the chaff (see the entry on "token" in the Dictionary for how a token is defined). Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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
