• *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

*FIRST Function

Syntax

Arguments

text

A non-null character string. Character

word

A character string.

Description

Returns true if the text starts with the specified word.

Discussion

*FIRST() returns .T. (TRUE) if Find_Stringis found at the start of Search_In_String. Note: Do not confuse this function, which operates on a character expression, with the summary function FIRST() , which operates on a group of records.

Example

*first(LASTNAME, "MC") -> TRUE, if the LASTNAME field starts with the character string "MC"

Limitations

The Find_Stringargument is case sensitive.

See Also

• $ (Operator Substring Inclusion)
• *ANY()
• *LEADING()
• *WORD()