Re: getting chunks of text
Re: getting chunks of text
- Subject: Re: getting chunks of text
- From: David Marshall <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 22:21:23 -0500
Not sure if I missed something, but it seems to me that in order to
distinguish between a chunk whose 256th character is in the middle of a
word and one whose 256th character is the last letter of a word, it's
actually necessary to look at the 257th character.
In cases in which the chunk ends with the end of a word, some of the
routines we've seen would appear to disqualify that last word, since
its terminating white space occurs at the beginning of the second
chunk. But the second chunk would begin, as specified, with the 257th
character. Hence in the rejoining of chunks one and two, the
chunk-terminating word of chunk one would be lost.
Does this solution make sense?
set inputText to characters 1 through 257 of --your text input
method here
if ((item -1 of inputText = " ") or (item -2 of inputText = " ")) then
--checking for either condition
return items 1 through 256 of inputText as string
Sorry if I missed discussion of this issue.
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David Marshall
email@hidden
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