On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 6:37 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> It is sort of strange to me that I want more than 1 word and so I used > "words", As to how grammatically correct it is I'm sure Richmond could tell us, but I like to think of it this way, I'm not actually specifying plural what I'm doing is specifying a start point and an end point and these are always singular. char 1 to char 21 word 5 to word -2 this is then conveniently shorthanded to: item 2 to 22 token 34 to -9 byte -8 to -1 Also, if I ask myself, how do I get every word from a variable - note I've used the singular, so the answer is, word 1 to -1 --again I use the singular And just in case it comes up, remember a word in LC includes any punctuation that may follow what we typically think of as a word, in the message box put "this is, a word" into tStore put word 1 to 2 of tStore into msg if you don't want the punctuation you might find trueword is what you need put "this is, a word" into tStore put trueword 1 to 2 of tStore into msg HTH _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
