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Version: 26.3

eightieth, eightieths

Ordinal Number​

Selects the eightieth chunk element.

Examples:

put the eightieth character of line into breakPoint
put the eightieth char of "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890!@#$%^&*()-_[]{}\~|`;':,.<>/?π√¢×⎇«»≤≥" --> ~

Accessing Chunks Using ordinal-to-last​

(Added in SenseTalk 2.13)

You can access chunks counting back from the end of a string, list, etc. using ordinal-to-last syntax.

Example:

put the eightieth-to-last char of "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890!@#$%^&*()-_[]{}\|~`;':,.<>/?π√¢×⎇«»≤≥" --> U

Fraction​

Example:

set fraction to seven eightieths