--- Bill Vlahos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I get the word before a specific character in > a field? I can be > any character in the text field I choose but I can't > figure out how to > do something like "get the previous word" from a > specific character in > the field. > > The only way I figure I could do it would be to > crawl backwards via a > repeat loop until I get to a space. This seems > inelegant and I can > envision several situations which would trip this up > (punctuation > characters, etc.). > > Is there a built in function for this? > > Thanks, > Bill Vlahos >
Try this: ## put wird -1 of char 1 to x of theText ## No repeat loop - let the engine figure it out :-) Jan Schenkel. Quartam Reports & PDF Library for Revolution <http://www.quartam.com> ===== "As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time." (La Rochefoucauld) _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution