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WordPosition

Search position of Nth word in a string.

Declaration

Source position: strutils.pp line 199

  function WordPosition(const N: Integer; const S: string; 
                       const WordDelims: TSysCharSet) : SizeInt;

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 predefined StdWordDelims constant can be used for the WordDelims argument.

Errors

None

See also

Name Description
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.
StdWordDelims Standard word delimiter values.
WordCount Count the number of words in a string.