• *grouping_word Function
• *grouping_word_inside Function
• a5_csweb_to_list Function
• a5_extractoddata Function
• a5_get_pos_linestart Function
• a5_modeless_textencoder Function
• expandtablefiletypes Function
• EXTRACT_STRING Function
• getstringfromfile Function
• LASTWORD Function
• LEADING Function
• LEFT Function
• left_u Function
• rat_u Function
• regex_literal_extract Function
• regex_literal_mask_get Function
• right_u Function
• SUBSTR Function
• substr_u Function
• TRAILING Function
• WORD2 Function
• WORD_IN_COMMON Function
• WORD_IN_COMMON_C Function
• WORD_UNIQUE Function
• WORD_UNIQUE_C Function

TRAILING Function

Syntax

Arguments

strings

A string expression containing words separated by repeating characters.

word_number

Specifies the word in the Input_String to examine. Numeric

Description

Returns the non-word characters following the specified word.

Discussion

TRAILING() returns the characters that separate the word_number word in the input, strings, from the next word.

Example

trailing("now...is,,,,the:::time",2) ->  ",,,,"
trailing("now...is,,,,the:::time",1) -> "..."

See Also

• Character Extraction Functions