StringScanner.ScanOverSmatchI Function
Syntax
Text as C = ScanOverSmatchI as C(pattern as c)
Arguments
- Text
The text between the starting and ending offset positions.
- pattern
The text that you want to process. You may use the "?" (single character) and "*" (any number of characters) expressions.
Description
Skip over a pattern . Return text we scanned over.
Discussion
The <StringScanner>.ScanOverSmatchI() function looks for Find_Text (case insensitive) at the offset. The offset is positioned immediately after Find_Text.
Example
dim scanner as P dim txt as C txt = <<%text% This is wonderful text written by a great writer %text% scanner = stringscanner.create(txt) ? scanner.ScanOverSmatchI("Th*s") = "This" ? scanner.GetToOffset() = "This" ? scanner.GetRemainder() =is wonderful prose written by a technical writer of note.
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