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Re: find or equal test problem

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> May 26, 2005
• 395 views

sixs wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the advice from all. I am trying to find words in  a listing 
> or letter document .

To find a substring inside a string, use the match() function.

  object textline
  integer location
  textline = gets(0)
  location = match("pickle", textline)
  if location > 0 then
     printf(1, "\nPickle was found at column %d\n", location)
  else
     puts(1, "\nNo pickles here!\n")
  end if


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Derek Parnell
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