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  Split text

  Posted by Phil Largilliere on April 20, 2016 at 11:00 am

  Hi every one !

  I would like to split a line in 3 news line. I suppose that the client enter a sentence between 3 and 15 words.
  The first line contains the first word, the last line contains the last word, and the 2nd line contains all the other word…

  First, I want to replace the first and the last space (” “) by a pipe (“|”), then use the code split() but I have a problem. How can I define where is the last word (or space) ?

  Thanks for your help…

  Phil Largilliere replied 10 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Dan Ebberts

  April 20, 2016 at 1:46 pm

  Maybe lastIndexOf() is what you’re looking for:

  myText.lastIndexOf(” “);

  Dan
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  Phil Largilliere

  April 20, 2016 at 2:08 pm

  It’s a part of the solution, but I don’t know how to use it.

  I would like to know how many spaces there is in the text, or how many words, because “replace” doesn’t work with the number of characters, does it ?

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