How to find a period in a text string

JTT4056

Hi, I am trying to find the end of a sentence in a text string using the textFind behavior.

How do I specify the pattern in order to find a period? I tried '.', but it doesn't work. I also tried '.' and that didn't work either.

Any ideas?

Thanks!
Janine

JTT4056

oops. the second thing I tried was backslash-period. That got lost in the html posting.

tatiang

You need to use double quotes. This is true for any text expressions, not just for punctuation.

jamie_c

You'll need to use "%." in the expression editor for the period.

tatiang

@jamie_c said:
You'll need to use "%." in the expression editor for the period.

See now, I learn something new every day.

jamie_c

@tatiang, I had to go look it up!

JTT4056

Thanks! Can you tell me where you looked it up? @jamie_c

jamie_c

I found it at the link below:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15258313/finding-with-string-find

Since Gamesalad is based on Lua I did a search for "lua period escape code".

I had been researching the topic for my book so at least I knew what to look for.

JTT4056

Perfect! Thanks!