Easy to say, but how does one replace the quotes with curly-quotes?
I can't find out where it says how to do that.
Sorry I'm so lame.
Larry
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry Jensen" <j...@jhj.com>
To: "How to use LiveCode" <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2014 1:26 PM
Subject: Re: problem with counting words
Ah, and then there are tabs to deal with, and double-spaces will count an
empty item between. It may be better to just replace the quotes with
curly-quotes, count the words, and then replace the curly-quotes back to
quotes if you want.
On Oct 12, 2014, at 12:20 PM, Jerry Jensen <j...@jhj.com> wrote:
Hi Larry,
the itemDel is the character that delimits ITEMS, not words. You could
use it to get around your problem with quotes. If you set the itemDel to
space, you would then look for the number of ITEMS in the field. Thats
not quite the end of it though, because there may not be a space between
lines in the field, only returns. So, you could add up the number of
items in each line - something like:
put 0 into tCount
set the itemDel to space
repeat for each line L in field "foo"
add the number of items in L to tCount
end repeat
(not tested)
.Jerry
On Oct 12, 2014, at 11:17 AM, la...@significantplanet.org wrote:
Hello,
I'm posting this to help any other poor saps who run into this insanity:
I want to count the words in a field. I have:
set the itemDel to space
put the number of words of field "myTest" into field "myNumber"
Here is what happens:
I am testing the word count in LiveCode 6.1.1. Believe it or not,
LiveCode will count all these words
as 23 words "because everything contained within the quotes is counted
as ONE word!!!"
There is nothing that I could find that says LiveCode will treat
everything within quotes as one word, even when I have itemDel set to
space.
I doubt the RunRev people will see this as a bug, but "just how it is."
Well, it's really stupid - and beyond that, it is not documented in the
Dictionary that I could see.
btw, I spoke to a programmer friend of mine (who used to work for
Novell) and he said he'd never heard anything like that in the several
programming languages he knows.
Yes, I do know how to do a work around to count all the actual words,
but that is not the point. The point is that I wasted over 2 hours of
my time figuring out why my word count was inaccurate.
quite depressed,
Larry
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