On Mar 13, 2014, at 11:51 AM, Jim Hurley wrote: > I have a poor man’s version that is workable. > > However just ran across a sentence in today’s NYT that I will have to include: > > (“What they’re offering people is a full stomach and an empty soul.”) > > I had dealt with the quote beyond the period and the paren beyond the period, > but not both.
Here's a simple function I've been using. The new LC grammar revisions will make it obsolete eventually. function naturalWord tWord -- strips punctuation from HC-style "words" fore and aft -- to return something closer to what is normally understood as a word put "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890" into tAlphabet -- numerals included to cope with numbers and things like "HTML5" repeat while char 1 of tWord is not in tAlphabet delete char 1 of tWord end repeat repeat while char -1 of tWord is not in tAlphabet delete char -1 of tWord end repeat return tWord end naturalWord It's simple, and therefore somewhat simple-minded -- it will miss some cases, but I've found it useful. "Every complicated problem has a simple, easy, obvious, wrong answer." -- H. L. Mencken -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig _______________________________________________ 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