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<span class="pageSubtitle">Part of string following character in delimiter set</span>

<p class="warn"><b>Note: </b>Most Sirius $functions have been deprecated in favor of Object Oriented methods. The OO equivalent for the $ParseX function is the <var>[[After (String function)|After]]</var> function. You might also find a more powerful solution in the [[StringTokenizer class]] or elements of the Sirius Regex implementation, such as <var>[[RegexSplit (String function)|RegexSplit]]</var>.</p>

This function returns the part(s) of a string that remain after removing the part of the string that is delimited by a character in a delimiter set. 

The <var>$ParseX</var> function accepts three arguments and returns a string result that is a part of the first input string. 

==Syntax==
<p class="syntax"><span class="term">%piece</span> = <span class="literal">$ParseX</span>(<span class="term">string</span>, <span class="term">delims</span>, [<span class="term">start_pos</span>])
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<p>
<var class="term">%piece</var> is a piece of the first argument string.</p>
The first argument is an arbitrary string. 

The second argument is a string containing a set of delimiter characters. 

The third argument is a starting position in the first argument string and has a default of 1.

<var>$ParseX</var> returns a null string if none of the delimiter characters are found, unless the second argument is the null string (the default), in which case $ParseX returns the entire first argument string.

==Examples==
The following statement would set %JUNK to <tt>WANT|NOT</tt>:
<p class="code"> %JUNK = $ParseX('WASTE NOT(WANT|NOT', '(|')
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The statement below would set %JUNK to <tt>NOT</tt>:
<p class="code"> %JUNK = $ParseX('WASTE NOT(WANT|NOT', '|')
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The following statement would set <code>%junk</code> to <code>WASTENOT</code>:
<p class="code">%junk = $ParseX('WASTE NOT(WANT|NOT', '|', 6)
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Note that this last result string is a concatenation of the characters that precede the starting position character in the initial string and the characters that follow the delimiter character. Also note that the characters that are '''not''' in this result string are exactly the characters that <var>[[$Parse]]</var> would return for this same initial string. 

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