Re: Changed definition of word? No dashes?
Re: Changed definition of word? No dashes?
- Subject: Re: Changed definition of word? No dashes?
- From: Harald E Brandt <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 22:14:07 +0100
+--> Shane Stanley wrote 01-02-09:
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On 9/2/01 10:00 AM +1000, Harald E Brandt, email@hidden, wrote:
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> Sorry, I meant hyphen instead of dash. It does not change the issue or bug in
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> any way, but I just want to be correct here:
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> I.e hyphen (that key without any modifiers) shall, according to the manual, be
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> part of the word in strings. And it WAS part of the word in earlier OS.
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I think that means when it's _used_ as a hyphen -- that is, between two
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words (or parts thereof).
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No, they (both in the book and in the pdf manual) explicitly say about Word under Strings, that a Word contains:
"hyphens (but not minus signs [Option-hyphen] or dashes
[Option-Shift-hyphen])".
There is no requirement that the hyphen must be surrounded by other characters. So to be strict according to this, "-34" is a word.
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