Word Text Chunk

Syntax

word <integer> [to <integer2>]

{of | in} <expression> the <ordinal> word {of | in} <expression>

Description

The word chunk yields a substring of an expression by extracting a specified word or range of words from the expression. Words are delimited by spaces, returns, or tabs; they include all punctuation between these delimiters. The <expression> can be any valid text string, including a container reference, a property reference, a function that returns text, a literal string, or a combination of these.

Notes

You can specify chunks of chunks as in word 2 of line 3 of field "Inventory" You can also specify ranges using chunks, as in word 3 to 5 of field "Names" You can use text chunk expressions with tabular chunk expressions by enclosing the tabular chunk expression within parentheses as in the following example: put word 1 of (column 1 of pickList 3) Attention: You can use a combination of text and tabular chunk expressions to retrieve values, but not to insert values into containers.

Examples

The following examples demonstrates various chunk expressions and the values that they return. For the examples, assume these conditions: put "1 2 3 4 5" into my_variable put "I like peas, carrots, and broccoli" into field 1 Expression: word 1 of "red green blue" Result: red Expression: word 2 to 3 in "red, green, blue" Result: green, blue Expression: word 1 of "red,green,blue" Result: red,green,blue Expression: char 1 to 3 of word 2 of "red green blue" Result: gre Expression: word 1 to 4 of my_variable Result: 1 2 3 4 Expression: the last word in field 1 Result: broccoli Expression: the first word of fld 1