Hi Larry, the itemDel is the character that delimits ITEMS, not words. You could use it to get around your problem with quotes. If you set the itemDel to space, you would then look for the number of ITEMS in the field. Thats not quite the end of it though, because there may not be a space between lines in the field, only returns. So, you could add up the number of items in each line - something like:
put 0 into tCount set the itemDel to space repeat for each line L in field "foo" add the number of items in L to tCount end repeat (not tested) .Jerry On Oct 12, 2014, at 11:17 AM, la...@significantplanet.org wrote: > Hello, > > I'm posting this to help any other poor saps who run into this insanity: > > I want to count the words in a field. I have: > > set the itemDel to space > > put the number of words of field "myTest" into field "myNumber" > > > > Here is what happens: > > I am testing the word count in LiveCode 6.1.1. Believe it or not, LiveCode > will count all these words > > as 23 words "because everything contained within the quotes is counted as ONE > word!!!" > > > > There is nothing that I could find that says LiveCode will treat everything > within quotes as one word, even when I have itemDel set to space. > > I doubt the RunRev people will see this as a bug, but "just how it is." > Well, it's really stupid - and beyond that, it is not documented in the > Dictionary that I could see. > > btw, I spoke to a programmer friend of mine (who used to work for Novell) and > he said he'd never heard anything like that in the several programming > languages he knows. > > Yes, I do know how to do a work around to count all the actual words, but > that is not the point. The point is that I wasted over 2 hours of my time > figuring out why my word count was inaccurate. > > quite depressed, > > Larry > _______________________________________________ > 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
