suppress word delimiter effect of quotes

[jmburnod]

Hi All,
I search the simplest way to suppress the word delimiter effect in a sentence with quote chars.
Word 3 of a fld it contains :

He said "Hello Dears"

is
"Hello Dears" (with quotes )

Best regards
Jean-Marc

[Thierry]

I search the simplest way to suppress the word delimiter effect in a sentence with quote chars.
Word 3 of a fld it contains :

He said "Hello Dears"

is
"Hello Dears" (with quotes )

Bonjour Jean-Marc,

what about this?

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replace quote with empty in field 1

Thierry

[SparkOut]

Since LC 7.0 you can use trueWord to determine a word as being separate if there are no alphabetic or numeric characters between the word breaks:

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   put ("He said" && quote & "hello dears" & quote && "to his friends") into tWords
   put the number of words of tWords into tNum
   put the number of trueWords of tWords into tTrueNum
   answer word 3 of tWords && "is the 3rd word of the" && tNum && "words in" && quote & tWords & quote
   answer trueWord 3 of tWords && "is the 3rd trueWord of the" && tTrueNum && "trueWords in" && quote & tWords & quote

However, this seems to have uncovered a bug on my installation (7.0.5 community edition, Windows 7) as both tNum and tTrueNum tell me the number of words or trueWords of tWords is 6, where it should be 7 trueWords.

[FourthWorld]

V7 introduced the trueWord token for that.

[SparkOut]

http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15422

[Thierry]

Since LC 7.0 you can use trueWord ......

Using your sample code, here is how it will work for *all* versions of LiveCode,
especially before LC 7.

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put ("He said" && quote & "hello dears" & quote && "to his friends") into tWords
replace quote with empty in tWords
put the number of words of tWords into tNum
answer word 3 of tWords && "is the 3rd word of the" && tNum && "words in" && quote & tWords & quote

Hope this clarifies my 1st post.

Thierry

[jmburnod]

Hi All,
Thanks at all
Yes Thierry i used a replace script but I need show quote chars.
I work around this way. I will write back about it
Jean-Marc