#111 closed Feature Request (Rejected)
Extension to StringinStr to allow search from position as well as from occurrence (100% backwards compatible )
| Reported by: | Fox2 | Owned by: | |
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| Milestone: | Component: | AutoIt | |
| Version: | Severity: | ||
| Keywords: | StringInStr | Cc: |
Description
An additional flag parameter, also optional, that if you specify "occurrence" as a parameter, you can also after it specify "search type" too. The new description would be like this. Note this is 100% compatible with existing syntax, and defaults to the current behavior:
UPDATED SYNTAX AND DESCRIPTION:
StringInStr ( "string", "substring" , casesense [, from [, search type?] )
from [optional], search type [optional]
Depending on search type, directs StringInStr to either find a given occurrance of a substring (default behavior), or search for a substring from a given position.
If search type is zero or omitted (default) then "from" represents an occurrence of the substring to find in the string. Use a negative occurrence to search from the right side. The default value is 1 (finds first occurrence).
If search type = 1 then "from" represents a position to start searching for the substring in the string (1 = first character). Use a negative occurrence to search from a number of characters from the right side. The default value is 1 (finds first occurrence from the start of the string).
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comment:1 Changed 17 years ago by Valik
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What you ask for can be done with regular expressions (StringRegExp()). It would be somewhat easy to write a function with StringRegExp() at it's heart to implement all the functionality you ask for (except perhaps the negative position, I'm not sure if StringRegExp() supports that).
Resolving as rejected.