WordNumberIn and WordNumberOf (String functions)

Word number of method object needle within argment list of words (String class) [introduced in Sirius Mods 7.9 βeta]

Note that processing a string of words may be better accomplished with the StringTokenizer class.

Syntax

%number = string:WordNumberIn( haystack, [Spaces= string])

%number	A variable to receive the number of the first occurrence of the `needle` word in the `haystack` list of words. If the word `needle` is not one of the words in `haystack`, `%number` is set to 0.
string	The method object string. Depending upon whether the `WordNumberIn` or `WordNumberOf` function is being used, `string` may be either the: search target `needle`, when called as `WordNumberIn` the search space `haystack`, when called as `WordNumberOf`
haystack	The list of words within which the `needle` is searched for.
needle	The word which is searched for in the `haystack`.
`Spaces`	A set of "whitespace" characters, that is, characters that separate words. The default is the blank character. If the null string is provided, the blank character is used as the whitespace character.

The following fragment:

PrintText {~='aa bb cc':WordNumberOf('bb')} PrintText {~='bb':WordNumberIn('aa bb cc')}

produces the following result:

'aa bb cc':WordNumberOf('bb')=2 'bb':WordNumberIn('aa bb cc')=2

You can use WordNumberIn and Word as "quick and dirty" NamedArraylists:

%x = 'PA' %w = %x:WordNumberIn - ('MA PA MN') %s = ('Massachusetts Pennsylvania Minnesota'):Word(%w) Print 'Full state name:' And %s

However, as the number of words grows large, repeated use of WordNumberIn is less efficient than using a NamedArrayList.

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