"shakes" and "wiggles"

[richmond62]

This:

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on mouseUp
   if fld "TEKST" contains "shakes" & "wiggles" then
      put "YUP" into fld "REZ"
   else 
   put "NOPE" into fld "REZ"
   end if
end mouseUp

ALWAYS returns "NOPE" even when fld "TEKST" contains:

"She shakes and wiggles across the stage like a snake."

This is a problem.

[SparkOut]

Hi Richmond

if field "TEKST" contains "shakes" AND field "TEKST" contains "wiggles" then...


If you delve deeper you will see that what you have been asking is whether field "TEKST" contains "shakeswiggles"

"&" is a concatenator

"and" is a boolean operator.

and "wiggles" is not a valid test either, you'd need to test the condition of "wiggles" against the field the same as "shakes":

IF (boolean test A resolves to true) AND (boolean test B resolves to true) THEN...

but you can't have "wiggles" as boolean test B - well you can, but not sensibly in this context.

[richmond62]

Thanks SparkOut for a very comprehensive and easily comprehensible answer.
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[richmond62]

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Linguists often need to work their way through linguistic corpora to find co-occurrences of words . . .

There are commercially available applications to do this sort of thing that cost quite a bit of money . . .

Between 26th August and 6th of September I shall be teaching an introductory course in LiveCode
to members of the Philological Faculty of the University of Plovdiv . . . an institution not noted for
having "bags of moolah" to pay for specialist software for its academics to use for their academic
research.
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[richmond62]

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Obviously, because I'm a "sadistic old sausage" I will NOT include all the code in the
stack I dole out to the students.

[richmond62]

New and improved version.
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[richmond62]

Ideally . . . this stack should be built up to provide all the capabilities available
with this commercial software package:

http://www.athel.com/colloc.html

This is silly:

" Educational Price. Single user: $45
Site licence (2-year, 15 users) $395"

especially as it is a Windows-only package.

This:

https://lexically.net/downloads/version ... basics.htm

is a suite of Windows-only tools at the price of "£50 (approx. US$70-80 or €65)"

What particularly cheeses me off is the fact that neither of these offerings actually mentions
that they are Windows-only, nor which versions of Windows they will work on.