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On Jun 23, 2010, at 12:41 PM, Luther Fuller wrote:

On Jun 23, 2010, at 12:15 PM, Alex Zavatone wrote:

I just found out that if you have a string with a minus sign in it, that the minus sign can not be a word.

The string,
"This is my - string"

simply ignores the minus sign as a word.
Any ideas on how to detect the minus sign? Offset maybe?

On the other hand, there's ...

set x to "This is my - string"
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {space}
text items of x --> {"This", "is", "my", "-", "string"}

But, to get this to work correctly, you will need to set TIDs to a list of YOUR word delimiters.
And, the result will contain items which are the null string.

Ahhh, thanks much Luther.

References:
	>Detecting the minus sign in a string (From: Alex Zavatone <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Detecting the minus sign in a string (From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>)