Hi Pete, It will return 0 if you set the wholeMatches to true.
-- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Use Color Converter to convert CMYK, RGB, RAL, XYZ, H.Lab and other colour spaces. http://www.color-converter.com We have time for new software development projects. Contact me for a quote. On 3 dec 2012, at 21:36, Peter Haworth wrote: > I'm finding that wordOffset treats comment chars as a word even if they > are immediately followed by another character. > > For example: > > wordOffset("--","repeat with x=1 to 100 --check something") > > ...returns 6. I would have expected it to return zero since there is > no occurrence of "--" surrounded by spaces or quotes. > > To add to the plot: > > put word 6 of "repeat with x=1 to 100 --check something" > > ...returns "--check" > > And: > > wordOffset("--","repeat with x=1 to 100 -- check something") > > ...also returns 6 (there's a space between the comment chars and "check" in > this example). > > It turns out that this is useful in the context of what I'm doing but > whenever I run into what I think is unexpected behavior like this, I'm wary > of using it in case it's actually a bug that might get fixed at some point > and break my code. > > Am I being over cautious? > > Pete > lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.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
