find word

[GoSm]

I am preparing a register for a projected book. In p. 9, there is written: "(Gesamtwürdigung des Werkes)".
Now I start 2 searches of the form "find word":
a) for "Gesamtwürdigung"
b) for "Werkes"
The results: a) ist "not found", b) is found on p. 9.
To me the results seem contradictory, because brackets never belong to a word, beit in the beginning, beit in the end of the word, So, "Gesamtwürdigung" should be found too.
Or made I something wrong?

Thank you for your answer!

[dunbarx]

Hi.

Where do you see brackets ("[" or "]") in your text?

You are talking about two different "find" actions, correct? But are you asking why the first one failed and the second one succeeded? And what is meant by "page 9"? Do you mean card 9?

Can you post the code you used?

Craig

[jacque]

LC finds words by looking for spaces between words. If there is no space after a bracket then LC thinks the bracket is part of the word. I'm not sure if this will work, but try
"find trueword" instead of "find word". It isn't in the dictionary but it might work. The keyword "trueword" ignores punctuation and symbols.

[dunbarx]

Hi.

Aha. By "brackets" do you mean parentheses "(" or ")"?

If so, then something Jacque mentioned may be an issue, since those "brackets" are part of the word you are searching for. So when you use the "find word" form of the "find" command, unless you:

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  find word "(Gesamtwürdigung"

the find will fail. If you instead:

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find "Gesamtwürdigung"
or
find string "Gesamtwürdigung"

Livecode will work fine.

Craig

[dunbarx]

But still am not clear about "page 9"

Craig