WordPosition function

In unit StrUtils

Search position of Nth word in a string.

Declaration

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function WordPosition(const N: Integer; const S: string; 
 const WordDelims: TSysCharSet): SizeInt

Arguments

`N`	Which word to search for.
`S`	String to search in.
`WordDelims`	Characters to be used as word delimiters.

Function result

Position of the N-th word, or -1 if there is none.

Description

WordPosition returns the position (in characters) of the N-th word in the string S. A word is a non-empty string of characters bounded by one of the characters in WordDelims. If N is out of range, zero is returned.

The predefined StdWordDelims constant can be used for the WordDelims argument.

Errors

None