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WORDAT Function
Syntax
Position as N = WORDAT(C word,C string[,C separator])
Arguments
- word
The word to find in Input_String. Character
- string
A character string.
- separator
Optional. Default = space (" "). The character string that separates words.
Description
Returns which word matches (1 based,0 means no match).
Discussion
WORDAT() returns the word number of Word in string. Case insensitive. If the optional separator parameter is not specified, a word is any sequence of one or more characters separated either by a space or the start or end of the string. WORDAT() is a case insensitive version of WORDATC().
Example
wordat("test", "This is a test") -> 4 dim fruits as C fruits = "apple" + crlf() + "banana" + crlf() + "grape" + crlf() + "peach" + crlf() + "plum" wordat("banana", fruits, crlf() ) ? 2
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