Thanks Mark. I knew there must be a logical explanation for it! Pete lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Mark Schonewille < m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
