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WordPosition

Search position of Nth word in a string.

Declaration

Source position: strutils.pp line 166

function WordPosition(

  const N: Integer;

  const S: string;

  const WordDelims: TSysCharSet

):Integer;

Arguments

N

  

Which word to search for

S

  

String to search in.

WordDelims

  

Characters to be used as word delimiters.

Function result

Position of the N-th word, or -1 if there is none.

Description

WordPosition returns the position (in characters) of the N-th word in the string S. A word is a non-empty string of characters bounded by one of the characters in WordDelims. If N is out of range, zero is returned.

The pre-defined StdWordDelims constant can be used for the WordDelims argument.

Errors

None

See also

WordCount

  

Count the number of words in a string.

StdWordDelims

  

Standard word delimiter values.

ExtractWord

  

Extract the N-th word out of a string.

ExtractWordPos

  

Extract a word from a string, and return the position where it was located in the string.


Documentation generated on: Nov 14 2015