Because a word is defined as 'a number of characters together in a string separated either or both sides by a white space'. So it doesn't actually count the white spaces but the number of actual strings of characters separated by them. The actual glossary term is not fully expressive by saying "A chunk of text that is delimited by spaces, tabs, or returns."
Sean Cole *Pi Digital Productions Ltd* www.pidigital.co.uk +44(1634)402193 +44(7702)116447 'Don't try to think outside the box. Just remember the truth: There is no box!' 'For then you realise it is not the box you are trying to look outside of, but it is yourself!' eMail Ts & Cs <http://pidigital.co.uk/emailTCs.rtf> Pi Digital Productions Ltd is a UK registered limited company, no. 5255609 On 11 September 2017 at 23:36, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Setting the itemdelimiter to space and using items instead of words would > certainly work around it, thanks for that tip. > > But by way of discussion, when we talk about string manipulation in this > list/forum, and how words are "delimited" we actually use the word > "delimiter" to talk about the spaces, with the one difference that there is > no wordDelimiter property that we can change, while there is for lines and > items, so that: > > put "test" into tString;put "test3" into line 3 of tString;put tString > produces: > test > > test3 > > As you would expect. I guess that means that spaces are the bastard > children of the string manipulation world. :-) > > I will file a report anyway as requested. > > Bob S > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
