I'm echoing John:
Thanks Kay for the detailed explanation.
That really helps us understand the LC syntax so much better!
Larry
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kay C Lan" <lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com>
To: "How to use LiveCode" <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2014 8:31 PM
Subject: Re: from here to there
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 6:37 AM, <la...@significantplanet.org> wrote:
It is sort of strange to me that I want more than 1 word and so I used
"words",
As to how grammatically correct it is I'm sure Richmond could tell us,
but I like to think of it this way, I'm not actually specifying plural
what I'm doing is specifying a start point and an end point and these
are always singular.
char 1 to char 21
word 5 to word -2
this is then conveniently shorthanded to:
item 2 to 22
token 34 to -9
byte -8 to -1
Also, if I ask myself, how do I get every word from a variable - note
I've used the singular, so the answer is, word 1 to -1 --again I use
the singular
And just in case it comes up, remember a word in LC includes any
punctuation that may follow what we typically think of as a word, in
the message box
put "this is, a word" into tStore
put word 1 to 2 of tStore into msg
if you don't want the punctuation you might find trueword is what you need
put "this is, a word" into tStore
put trueword 1 to 2 of tStore into msg
HTH
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