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I haven't been doing much coding for quite some time, but was just trying to improve on an old stack I'd built, and it appears that LiveCode 7 now removes the spaces when deleting a word in a sentence. Such that in a field "sisters," which contains the expression, "I have two sisters," the command "Delete word 3 of field "sisters"" renders "I havesisters." I can't think this is correct behavior, but that is what I'm getting, and it took some time to figure out why my trusty handler of yesteryear was now failing so miserably.

So... is this the new behavior, a bug, or ... what?

Thanks,
Mark

I worked around the issue by changing "delete word 3" to "put empty into word 3," but I still don't understand how deleting a word removes both preceding and trailng spaces.

If that recipe is repeatable please file a big report.

Yes, I just confirmed it again, just to be sure. I'll include the recipe here, and file a bug report.

In LiveCode 7.0.0, MacBook Pro, MacOS 10.9.4

Create a new main stack
Place a field on card 1
Place a button on card 1
In the field type: "I have two sisters."
In the button script type: Delete word 3 of field 1
Result: I havesisters.

Bug ID 13550

Has been confirmed.

Thanks for filing the report, Mark, and for noting the report number here so we can follow its progress.