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PositionTo()

Summary

Search for the last occurrence of a substring within a string, ending the search at a designated position.

 

Syntax

location = PositionTo(int end_pos, string big_string, string search_string)

 

Argument

Contents

end_pos

The ending character position

big_string

The string to be searched

search_string

The string for which to search

 

Returns

An integer indicating the position at which search_string starts in big_string, or zero if search_string is not found in big_string.

 

Notes

Examples

pos = PositionTo(6,"ABCABCA","ABC")

// returns 4

pos = PositionTo(,"ABCABCA","A")

// returns 7

pos = PositionTo(4,"ABCABCA","CAB")

// returns 3

pos = PositionTo(2,"ABCABCA","CAB")

// returns 0

 

See Also

Function

Summary

Left()

Returns the leftmost n characters of a string

Position()

Returns the position of a substring within a string

PositionFrom()

Search for the first occurrence of a substring within a string, starting the search at a designated position

Right()

Returns the rightmost n characters of a string

Substitute()

Replaces a matching substring with a new string.

SubstituteChars()

Returns the input string with all occurrences of the characters listed in the find string replaced with the characters in the replacement string

Substring()

Extracts a portion of a string

 

 

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