trueWords

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

# Metadata

Platforms: desktop, server, mobile OS: mac, windows, linux, ios, android Introduced: 7.0 Security:

# Syntax

trueWords

# Examples

put "?????????" & return into tText put "Language Learning and Teaching" & return after tText put "???????? ? ???????? ??????????? ??????" 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

# 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.

# Tags

text processing,

# See

- **keyword:** trueWord