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Re: I need help! (again :>)

• Posted by Joseph Martin <joe at CYBER-WIZARD.COM> Jun 03, 1997
• 1004 views

>
>  The problem is that find returns the postion at which
>  the find was made.
>  If find didn't find anything then it found it at 0.
>  or nowhere.
>
>  find returns WHERE or 0
>  not -1
>
>  find never returns -1

Granted. I forgot that.

>  >for i = 1 to length(file) do
>  >        n = find("1", file[i])
>  >                if n != -1 then
>
>  should be changed to
>
>  for i = 1 to length(file) do
>          n = find("1", file[i])
>                  if n then
>  OR
>
>  for i = 1 to length(file) do
>          n = find("1", file[i])
>                  if n > 0 then
>  OR
>
>  for i = 1 to length(file) do
>          n = find("1", file[i])
>                  if n != 0 then
>
My real problem is that the keyword is in the file and "find" doesn't find it!