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Lasivian
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Joined: 25 Jan 2002
Posts: 76
Location: USA
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 Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 5:25 pm
How do I search a string list variable?
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I've searched heavily and all I see is ways to search a database for a string, but not a string variable for a specific string.
I'm guessing there has to be a way to do this.
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MattLofton
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Joined: 23 Dec 2000
Posts: 4834
Location: USA
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Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 5:37 pm
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There's %ismember(), which is designed to return the element position of the data you are searching for, and there's %pos(), which is helpful for basic strings.
Each one returns a different result. If you wanted to %ismember("Joe","John|Joe|Jack") then the result would be 2, because "Joe" is the second item in the list. However, if you wanted to %pos("Joe","John|Joe|Jack"), then the result would be 6, because that's the character position where the string "Joe" starts.
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shalimar
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Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 6:59 pm
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%match is my favorite... its essentially a trigger in a function
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