"...first word 1..."? I assume you mean "first word" or "word 1".
Importantly, you also need to reduce confusion to Rev by parenthesising the second part of the expression, thus: get last item of (first word of "abc\def ghij\kl") then it works (or did for me). cheers David On Sunday, April 21, 2002, at 07:17 , Edwin Haskell wrote: > when I run this script: > > set the itemdelimiter to "\" > get last item of first word 1 of "abc\def ghij\kl" > > I get this message: > Script compile error: > Error description: Chunk: bad chunk order (must be small to large) > > I guess this means I can't put items in words like I can in Hypercard? > Is there a good reason for this restriction? > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution