• *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

*LEADING Function

Syntax

Arguments

text

A non-null character string.

word

A character string.

Description

Look for word starting with, word (or words) in text, return true if found, false if not found.

Discussion

*LEADING() returns .T. (TRUE) if Find_String matches the first part of any word in Search_In_String. A word is any sequence of characters separated on either end by spaces, punctuation marks, or the beginning or end of the field. Case sensitive.

Example

*leading(PHONENUMS, "245") -> TRUE, if any 7 digit phone number in the PHONENUMS field starts with "245"

Limitations

The Find_String argument is case sensitive.

See Also

• Character Search Functions
• $ (Substring Inclusion Operator)
• *ANY()
• *FIRST()
• *WORD()