[jawsscripts] Re: stringContainsFromRight
- From: "Geoff Chapman" <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2014 22:11:25 +1000
Ok Doug. I hear you on all the below. I'll just write him about that one
then eh. :)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Lee" <doug.lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 13, 2014 11:33 PM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: stringContainsFromRight
> The danger of using an undocumented function is that it may go away. A
> second danger is that it may be buggy but hard to file a bug against,
> since it isn't part of the published interface for scripting. For
> these reasons, if I stumble across an undocumented function, I usually
> don't start advertising it until I find two things hold true: (1) it
> stays in JAWS reliably across a few releases, and (2) it has a clear
> and helpful use that continues to work as expected across those
> releases.
>
> Even then, sometimes I run afoul of Freedom Scientific's plans.
> Witness the FindCaret function: I and others used it for years but
> quietly for the most part. Then coincidentally at about he same time,
> I and a couple other people started mentioning it, and Freedom
> Scientific removed it from JAWS because it was unreliable. And it was
> indeed unreliable, unless you were careful when and how to use it. It
> was re-added to JAWS later and finally documented; you can find it
> today in the FSDN and builtin.jsd.
>
> All that said, StringContainsFromRight is certainly useful, has been
> in JAWS for many years and many versions, and would be a good
> candidate for added documentation.
>
> I don't have a list of undocumented functions handy by the way. :-)
>
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 02:33:09PM +1000, Geoff Chapman wrote:
> My goodness Doug! This StringContainsFromRight sounds like a rather useful
> puppy to have known about for lots of people! Thanks for sharing it.
>
> I'm gonna write to eric right now and ask him why this function isn't
> included in the list of functions that comes up
> in Script manager after hitting control+I then tabbing once to that list
> of
> functions.
> And, of course it begs the question, How many other functions might there
> be
> like this!
>
> Would you perhaps care to compile a list of them that you know about? Then
> we could ask Erric to get them all included!
> I'm looking in version 12 right now though.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Doug Lee" <doug.lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2014 8:38 PM
> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Query about a string function
> stringContainsFromRight
>
>
>> It works just like stringContains except that it returns the start of
>> the last occurrence of the search string rather than that of the first
>> occurrence. TaxAct 2006.jss and TritonIM.jss contain uses of this
>> function and have for quite a while. I'm actually curious why it's not
>> listed in builtin.jsd, but I never remember to ask. :-)
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 09:43:44AM +0530, Jitendra wrote:
>> Alright, but how did you find it, and in case we need to use it, is there
>> any documentation on it?
>> Thank you.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Doug Lee" <doug.lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2014 4:24 PM
>> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Query about a string function
>> stringContainsFromRight
>>
>>
>> StringContains searches from the left; I am not aware of a function
>> actually called stringContainsFromLeft. As for
>> stringContainsFromRight, I found that one a long time ago.
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 04:08:17PM +0530, Jitendra wrote:
>> Hello doug, and may be others who know
>> I often found your using of the functions, stringContainsFromRight and
>> stringContainsFromLeft, but I did not find them in JAWS, where are those
>> functions, and how did you find them?
>> in case we want to use them, how do we know what parameters are needed.
>> Thank you, Jitendra.
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