Strike most of my last message. It appears that most of the function can be replaced with an examination of the entire text (dah) as in:
put tWord is among the tokens of tList into tTest return tTest This tests the whole text; it is not necessary to test each string containing the word individually. But remove the quotes and periods first. Jim > Thanks to all for their help with this. I learned a new key word in "token". > > So far the function below handles everything reasonable I have thrown at it, > including finding "time" in the less than reasonable text in field 1: > > "Now is timely the timeless time.-for, all good." > > on mouseUp > put field 1 into tText > put theWordIsAmongTheWords("time", tText) into msg box --returns true > end mouseUp > > function theWordIsAmongTheWords tWord, tList > --The quote and period are irrelevant to the test for the word, so delete > them. > replace quote with "" in tList > replace "." with "" in tList > put empty into tNums > > --Collect all the strings that wordOffset would find. > repeat > put wordOffset(tWord,tList, last item of tNums) into tNum > if tNum = 0 then exit repeat > put the last item of tNums + tNum & comma after tNums > end repeat > > --Test each of these strings aginst the word being tested. > --With the quotes and periods gone, the tokens of sting found work well. > repeat for each item tWordNum in tNums > put word tWordNum of tList into tTestWord > if tWord is among the tokens of tTestWord then return true > end repeat > > --If all the tests fail, then return false > return false > end theWordIsAmongTheWords > _______________________________________________ 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