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*WORDI Function

Syntax

Result_Flag as L = *WORDI(C text,C word)

Arguments

Result_Flag

TRUE (.T.) if the word was found; otherwise FALSE (.F.).

text

The character string to examine.

word

The word to find within Search_In_String.

Description

Find a case insensitive word (word of words) in text - if found, return true, else return false.

Discussion

The *WORDI() function scans the character Search_In_String and returns TRUE if the Find_String can be found in it. A word is any sequence of characters separated on either end by spaces, punctuation marks, or the beginning or end of the field. Case insensitive.

Example

? *wordi("this is a sentence", "is")
= .T.

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