string_pos

string_pos

Returns the position of a given sub-string in a string.

Syntax:

string_pos(substr, str)

Argument	Description
string substr	The substring to look for in the string
string str	The string

Returns: Real

Description

This function will return the character position of an instance of a sub-string within a string, or 0 if it's not found at all. One use for this is for filtering words that may be considered offensive, or for finding the correct place to insert some text into another string.

Example:

if string_pos(",", text) != 0
{
    string_insert(name, text, string_pos(",", text));
}

The above code searches the string "text" for a comma, and if it finds one it inserts the substring "name" at that position.

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