• *AVERAGE Function
• *COUNT Function
• *counter Function
• *FOR_EACH Function
• *LINE_INSERT Function
• *LINE_REMOVE Function
• *LINE_REPLACE Function
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• *PATTERN_EXTRACT Function
• *PATTERN_LOOKUP Function
• *PATTERN_LOOKUPI Function
• *REMOVE_DUPLICATES Function
• *REMOVE_DUPLICATESI Function
• *REVERSE_WORDS Function
• *TOTAL Function
• *WORD Function
• *WORD_INSERT Function
• *WORD_REMOVE Function
• *WORD_REPLACE Function
• *WORDI Function
• a5_arguments_dbflist Function
• a5_autocomplete_list Function
• a5_define_parameters Function
• a5_get_parameters Function
• a5_get_writeable_drives Function
• a5_getaddinsinstalled Function
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• COMMA_TO_CRLF Function
• COUNTRIESOFWORLD Function
• COUNTRYLOOKUP Function
• CRLF_TO_COMMA Function
• CSTATE Function
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• INLIST2 Function
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• REGION_FROM_AREACODE Function
• REMOVE_BLANK_LINES Function
• SortList_On_ReferenceList Function
• TAGGED_PATTERN Function
• UniqueNameGet Function
• WORD_CHANGE Function
• WORD_DUPLICATES Function
• WORD_EVALUATE Function
• WORD_EXISTS Function
• WORD_EXISTS_C Function
• WORD_i Function
• WORD_MOVE Function
• WORD_NUM Function
• WORD_NUMBER_GET Function
• WORD_REMOVE Function
• WORD_REPLACE Function
• WORD_SUBTRACT Function
• WORD_SUBTRACTC Function
• WORD_TAGGED_PATTERN Function

WORD_NUM Function

Syntax

Arguments

Position

The position of the word in the list. Returns 0 if not found.

cString

A CR-LF delimited list of words or entries.

cWord

The word or entry to find in List.

Description

Returns what word number cWord is in CR-LF delimited cString

Discussion

The WORD_NUM() function returns the position of a word or entry in a CR-LF delimited list.

Example

dim s as C
s = <<%a%
bird
cow
chicken
goat
%a%
? word_num(s, "chicken")
= 3
? word_num(s, "rooster")
= 0

See Also

• Character Search Functions
• List Processing Functions