Hello Walter


Yes I have used a similar function to the 2 you describe for years.

However I use the one function to do both jobs.
If I send an index number then the function send back a word.
If I send a word then the function sends back an index number :)


It just looks at the type of the parameter being searched for and works out what is required from there.

So I would like to see the following

? GETWORDNUM('apple orange pear', 2)
orange

? GETWORDNUM('apple orange pear', 'pear')
3

I think the description GETWORDNUM works quite well both ways


What do you think?





>Just as I pointed out in TIP of the Day: GETWORDNUM Thread #773431 Message #773431 how valuable the GETWORDNUM function is, I feel there is a need for the GETWORDPOS function.
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>GETWORDPOS(cSearchWord, cString, cDelimiter)
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>This function should return the number of the word in cString which matches cSearchWord. At default a words are seperated by spaces, tabs, carriage return or linefeeds (As with GETWORDNUM). You can change this by specifying cDelimiter
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>Examples:
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GETWORDPOS("Walter","Hello my name is Walter")

>should return 5 as walter is the 5th word in the string.
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GETWORDPOS("BIKE","TRACTOR|PLANE|CAR|BIKE|BOAT","|")

>should return 4 as BIKE is the 4th word where the words are delimited with a |
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>If cSearchWord is not found, the function should return 0
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>Well, what do you think ?
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>Walter,