$Lstr Windex

Return the position of a word within a long string

Note: Most Sirius $functions have been deprecated in favor of Object Oriented methods. The OO equivalent for $Lstr_Windex is WordNumberIn. Or, you may find the features of the StringTokenizer to be more helpful.

This function takes a string or longstring input and returns a number indicating the word position of the second argument within the long string. If the word is not present, zero is returned.

The $Lstr_Windex function accepts three arguments and returns a string result.

The first argument is an arbitrary string or longstring. This is a required argument.

The second argument is an arbitrary string containing a single word. The word must have no occurrences of any of the delimiters in argument three, and may not be null. This is a required argument.

The third argument is a string containing from 1 to 255 characters which are the delimiters for the longstring. This is an optional argument and defaults to a blank.

Syntax

%result = $Lstr_Windex(longstring, word, delims)

%result is the position of word within longstring.

Examples

1. To set %RES to "6":

   %RES = $Lstr_Windex('She sells sea-shells by the sea shore', 'sea')

2. To set %RES to "3":

   %RES = $Lstr_Windex('She sells sea-shells by the sea shore', 'sea', '- ')

See also

• Word - Select word from list of words
• Words - Sublist of list of words
• WordCount - Count words in list
• WordNumberIn and WordNumberOf - Word number of "needle" word within "haystack" list of words

Products authorizing $Lstr_Windex

• Sirius functions
• Fast/Unload User Language Interface
• Janus Open Client
• Janus Open Server
• Janus Sockets
• Janus Web Server
• Japanese functions
• Sir2000 Field Migration Facility