nbsp (non-breaking space) breaks

[pderks]

Hi,

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put ""
put "AA" & NumToCodepoint(160) & "BB" into XX
put "1" & tab & XX & tab & "Segments" & tab & the Num of segments of XX & cr after msg
put "1" & tab & XX & tab & "Words" & tab & the Num of words of XX & cr after msg
put "1" & tab & XX & tab & "Chars" & tab & the Num of chars of XX & cr after msg
put "AA" & NumToChar(202) & "BB" into XX -- nbsp MacRoman
put "2" & tab & XX & tab & "Segments" & tab & the Num of segments of XX & cr after msg
put "2" & tab & XX & tab & "Words" & tab & the Num of words of XX & cr after msg
put "2" & tab & XX & tab & "Chars" & tab & the Num of chars of XX & cr after msg

If I type "AA" and an option-space and "BB" I get again 2 words instead of only one.

Is that an achievement of of LC 9.0.4 ?

Peter

Mac Pro 2012 · macOS 10.12.6 · LC 9.0.4 CE

[Klaus]

Hi Peter,

no idea if this is new in 9.0.4, but it works as expected, the AA BB will WRAP as if it is ONE word.

However LC does treat them as two words.
This is the definition of a word in LC, anything separated by a SPACE, comma etc. and LC does obviously treat a non-breaking space as a space resp. does not differ them

Not sure if this is a bug or a feature!?


Best

Klaus

[pderks]

Hi, Klaus,

it is a bug in LC 9.0.4.

I just typed into the msg box of LC 5.0.5 Build 1503:

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put "AA BB" into XX; put num of words in XX

and got "1".

Bester

Peter

[dunbarx]

I am usually behind the times with all these new-fangled chunk options in the most recent versions, but anything enclosed in quotes was always one word.

The "trueWord" keyword seems to be the ticket here. It uses the ICU library, not LiveCodes own peccadilloes, as the delimiter between those two strings.

Craig

[Klaus]

Hi Craig,

true, but the content of the variable XX does NOT contain the QUOTES!

Just tested in 5.02 with this script, had to comment out lines with NumToCodepoint and SEGMENT:

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on mouseUp
   put "" into fld 1
   put "AA BB" into XX
   put "1" & tab & XX & tab & "Words" & tab & the Num of words of XX & cr after fld 1
   put "1" & tab & XX & tab & "Chars" & tab & the Num of chars of XX & cr after fld 1
   put "AA" & NumToChar(202) & "BB" into XX -- nbsp MacRoman
   put "2" & tab & XX & tab & "Words" & tab & the Num of words of XX & cr after fld 1
   put "2" & tab & XX & tab & "Chars" & tab & the Num of chars of XX & cr after fld 1
end mouseUp

And got:
1 AA BB Words 1
1 AA BB Chars 5
2 AA BB Words 1
2 AA BB Chars 5

So this is definitively a bug.

@Peter
Did you already report this?


Best

Klaus

[pderks]

Klaus, I did …

[dunbarx]

true, but the content of the variable XX does NOT contain the QUOTES!

True. I was thinking theoretically, not, you know, in any useful way.

Craig

[Klaus]

Klaus, I did …

Thank you!

For your interest: https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=22165

[sphere]

Seems to work correct in LC950dp1

putinXX.zip

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the lower button does what you describe

edit: and this

put "AA BB" into XX; put num of words in XX

gives 2 in the messagebox

or am i misunderstanding you?