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Search for the first occurrence of a substring within a string, starting the search at a designated position.
location = PositionFrom(int start_pos, string big_string, string search_string)
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start_pos |
The starting character position |
big_string |
The string to be searched |
search_string |
The string for which to search |
An integer indicating the position at which search_string starts in big_string, or zero if search_string is not found in big_string.
If start_pos is null or less than one, the search starts from the beginning of the string.
The search moves from start_pos to the end of the string.
pos = PositionFrom(3,"ABCABC","ABC") |
// returns 4 |
pos = PositionFrom(,"ABCABC","ABC") |
// returns 1 |
pos = PositionFrom(5,"ABCABC","ABC") |
// returns 0 |
Function |
Summary |
Returns the leftmost n characters of a string |
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Returns the position of a substring within a string |
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Search for the last occurrence of a substring within a string, ending the search at a designated position |
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Returns the rightmost n characters of a string |
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Replaces a matching substring with a new string. |
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Returns the input string with all occurrences of the characters listed in the find string replaced with the characters in the replacement string |
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Extracts a portion of a string |
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