token

Designates a LiveCode token as part of a chunk expression.

# Metadata

Platforms: desktop, server, mobile OS: mac, windows, linux, ios, android Introduced: 1.0 Security:

# Syntax

token

# Examples

get token 1 of "someFunction(a+b)" -- yields someFunction

get token 2 of "someFunction(a+b)" -- yields (

get token 3 of "someFunction(a+b)" -- yields a

get token 3 of "a+b" -- yields b

# Description

Use the token keyword to parse a LiveCode statement.

A token is a string of characters delimited by certain punctuation marks. The rules for deciding what a token is are as follows:

1. Each of the following characters is a token: + - = * / [ ] ( ) { } < > and comma (,). 2. Each of the following characters is a token delimiter: semicolon (;), space, return, and tab. 3. Each string of any other characters that is either separated by one of the above characters, or delimited by double quotes, is a token. The token does not include the separating character(s).

A single token can contain multiple characters, but not multiple words, items, or lines.

>*Note:* The token chunk is implemented for the LiveCode language, and > probably isn't suitable for use in a general-purpose language parser.

# Tags

text processing,

# See

- **keyword:** word, real8 - **glossary:** chunk expression, LiveCode