trueWords

Type

keyword

Summary

Used with the number function to count the number of trueWords in a container.

Syntax

trueWords

Description

Use the trueWords keyword to count the number of trueWord chunks in a container.

A trueWord is a word chunk, delimited by Unicode word breaks, as determined by the ICU Library. When there are no alphabetic or numeric characters between two word breaks, that string is not considered by LiveCode to be a trueWord.

Examples

put "外国語の学習と教授" & return into tText
put "Language Learning and Teaching" & return after tText
put "Изучение и обучение иностранных языков" after tText
put the number of trueWords in tText -- yields 15

put the number of trueWords of ("The programme output:" && quote & "Hello World!" & quote) -- yields 5

Related

keyword: trueWord

Compatibility and Support

Introduced

LiveCode 7.0

OS

mac

windows

linux

ios

android

Platforms

desktop

server

mobile