Re: Changed definition of word? No dashes?
Re: Changed definition of word? No dashes?
- Subject: Re: Changed definition of word? No dashes?
- From: Jolly Roger <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 17:11:03 -0600
- Replyto: email@hidden
on 2/8/2001 4:50 PM, Shane Stanley (email@hidden) wrote:
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I'm on 9.0.4, and the leading hyphen is not returned as part of a word (but
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hyphenated words are returned as a single word). Indeed, I've been running
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scripts for a long time, with several versions, that depend on this fact.
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But it is possible for applications to use a different definition of word --
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have you been using it inside a "tell application..." construct?
I'm running 9.1 and this:
word -1 of "bla bla -435,00 "
(outside of any tell block) does indeed return:
"435,00 "
just as Harald reports...
JR