User Guide

226 Chapter 11: Keywords

word...of

Usage

-- Lingo syntax

member(whichCastMember).word[whichWord]

textMemberExpression.word[whichWord]

chunkExpression.word[whichWord]

word whichWord of fieldOrStringVariable

fieldOrStringVariable. word[whichWord]

textMemberExpression.word[firstWord..lastWord]

member(whichCastMember).word[firstWord..lastWord]

word firstWord to lastWord of chunkExpression

chunkExpression.word[whichWord..lastWord]

Description

Chunk expression; specifies a word or a range of words in a chunk expression. A word chunk is

any sequence of characters delimited by spaces. (Any non-visible character, such as a tab or

carriage return, is considered a space.)

The expressions

whichWord, firstWord, and lastWord must evaluate to integers that specify a

word in the chunk.

Chunk expressions refer to any character, word, item, or line in any source of characters. Sources

of characters include field and text cast members and variables that hold strings.

To see an example of

word...of used in a completed movie, see the Text movie in the Learning/

Lingo Examples folder inside the Director application folder.

Example

These statements set the variable named animalList to the string “fox dog cat” and then insert

the word elk before the second word of the list:

animalList = "fox dog cat"

put "elk" before animalList.word[2]

The result is the string “fox elk dog cat”.

This statement tells Director to display the fifth word of the same string in the Message window:

put "fox elk dog cat".word[5]

Because there is no fifth word in this string, the Message window displays two quotation marks

(""), which indicate an empty string.