problem trueword in a string with "."not followed by a spac

[jmburnod]

Hi All,
I noticed a problem about trueword in a string with "." when "." is not followed by a space.
put trueword 5 of "Cooking with livecode is nice.Verry Nice" return "nice.Verry" and I expected "nice".
Same result with ":" but works fine with "!?,;-".
Is it a bug or i missed something in the doc ?

"A trueWord is a word chunk, delimited by Unicode word breaks, as determined by the ICU Library. When there are no alphabetic or numeric characters between two word breaks, that string is not considered by LiveCode to be a trueWord."
Best regards
Jean-Marc

[Thierry]

put trueword 5 of "Cooking with livecode is nice.Verry Nice" return "nice.Verry" and I expected "nice".
Same result with ":" but works fine with "!?,;-".

Joyeuses fetes, jean-marc !

If you need a quick solution, here is one:

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on mouseUp
   put line -1 of the script of me into T
   put trueword 5 of T --> nice.Very
   put truetrueword(T, 5) --> nice
end mouseUp

function truetrueword txt, n
   get "(?:\w+[^\w]){" & n - 1 & "}(\w+)"
   get matchText( txt, IT, theWord)
   return theWord
end truetrueword

Cooking with livecode is nice.Very Nice

et oui, meme le Pere Noel parle regex

Otherwise, must certainly be a bug..

Happy new year,

Thierry

[jmburnod]

I felt that Santa Claus existed. I know now who he's and that He speaks french... and regex.
Thanks one more
It works fine to get the trueword of a string. I will try workaround using this to get the prev or next real true word.

Thierry wrote: Otherwise, must certainly be a bug.

I will fill a bug report

Belles fêtes à toi aussi and happy new year
Jean-Marc

[Thierry]

Thanks one more
It works fine to get the trueword of a string.
I will try workaround using this to get the prev or next real true word.

You're welcomed.
Be careful if you want to use it; I don't think it will be generic enough
but it's easy to modify for different inputs.
Feel free to contact me off-list; you know where I am...

Regards,

Thierry

[jmburnod]

I filled a bug report
Bug 19038 - trueword in a string with "." or ":" not followed by a space, unexpected result
Jean-Marc

[jacque]

I suspect the issue is in the library that LC uses, and is probably an intentional decision. Decimal numbers would break, for example, since "123.8645" would not be a word any longer. It would also error with file paths and URLs. Just a guess.

[jmburnod]

Thanks Jacqueline and hapy new year,
I will find a workaround to avoid space missed after "." or ":" in the target text.
Jean-Marc
P.S : I'm endind 2016 with a 805 score on your Klondike game.

[jacque]

I wish everyone a year of peace and 805s.

[jmburnod]

Hi All,
Bug 19038 confirmed by LiveCode quality center
Best
Jean-Marc

Edit: There is different opinions if that is a bug or not.
It seems that the best way is to apply ponctuation rules when the text is written.