You could try to use (respects UCI word boundaries): if the num of trueWords in myString is 0
Works here in LC 7 and later. > I use “the number of words in myString = 0” to test whether > a line of text appears empty, since I want a line with only > space characters to be understood as empty. > But a line of text I pasted from elsewhere contained an > invisible character whose charToNum value is 202, and this > was counted as a word by my script. > Is there a better way to test for a line of text that has no > visible characters? > Many thanks. > > David Epstein _______________________________________________ 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