• *ANY Function
• *AT_MULTI Function
• *ATC_MULTI Function
• *FIRST Function
• *LEADING Function
• A5_EXTRACT_ADVANCE Function
• a5_font_list Function
• AT Function
• AT2 Function
• at_u Function
• ATC Function
• atc_u Function
• CONTAINS Function
• find_duplicate_lines Function
• l is_object Function
• RAT Function
• regex_match_length Function
• TEXTSEARCH Function
• TEXTSEARCHSCORE Function
• WORD Function
• WORD_FROM_POS Function
• WORDAT Function
• WORDATC Function
• WordFromEnd Function
• WORDS Function

WORDS Function

Syntax

Arguments

character

A character string.

word_number

An integer that specifies which word to return, counting left to right. Numeric

count

Optional. Default = 1. The number of words to return. Zero (0) returns all words. Numeric

keyword

Optional. Default = .T. (TRUE). Specifies that Alpha Anywhere should use the same rules for delimiting words that the KEYWORD() function uses. Logical

separator

Optional. Default = space (" "). Specifies the word separator . If Separator is specified, the Keyword argument is ignored. Separator is particularly useful with CR-LF delimited lists, in which case separator is "crlf() ".

Description

Returns words, stripping out all whitespace.

Discussion

Returns count of words from character, starting with the word identified by word_number.

Example

Assume that "fruits" is a CR-LF delimited list with these values:

Apple 
 Orange 
 Pear 
 Banana 
 Plum

words(fruits, 3, 2, .T., crlf() ) ->
Pear
Banana
words(fruits, 2, 2, .T.) -> "Orange Pear"

See Also

• Character Search Functions