My last word on Re: Changed definition of word? No dashes?
My last word on Re: Changed definition of word? No dashes?
- Subject: My last word on Re: Changed definition of word? No dashes?
- From: Richard 23 <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 22:01:00 -0800
Twice my message was truncated! Did it have a naughty character in it
or something? I checked for invisible characters on my end... nothing.
This is my last try.... I'm removing all quoted portions although it
shouldn't make any difference. Arrrgh!
I just saw my earlier reply which started here...
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<snip> original post about the minus sign in stringified numbers
not being included in "words of" although it used to....
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...And ended here. Makes it look as if I'm operating my email application
while loaded. No I'm not soused to the gills. My outbox still had the
complete post so here's another try...
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<snip> JR's report that he confirmed the offending action in 9.1
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I'm not so sure that this is news. I just answered a question exactly
like
this yesterday* via email so still have the response available for copy
and
paste: (two days ago now...arrgghh!)
My paperback (1993) Language Guide agrees with this assessment copied from
the (new?) 1.3.7 Guide:
Word
A continuous series of characters that contains only the
following types of characters:
* letters (including letters with diacritical marks)
* digits
* nonbreaking spaces
* dollar signs, cent signs, English pound symbols, or yen symbols
* percent signs
* commas between digits
* periods before digits
* apostrophes between letters or digits
* hyphens (but not minus signs [Option-hyphen]
or dashes [Option-Shift-hyphen]).
Here are some examples of words:
read-only
he's
v1.0
$99.99
12c-d
My quickie test:
{words of "b-52", words of "b-fifty-two", words of "terry-thomas"}
--> {{"b", "52"}, {"b-fifty-two"}, {"terry-thomas"}}
R23