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    PosEx

    Search for the occurrence of a character in a string, starting at a certain position.

    Declaration

    Source position: strutils.pp line 134

    function PosEx(const SubStr: Ansistring; const S: Ansistring; 
              Offset: SizeInt) : SizeInt;

    function PosEx(const SubStr: Ansistring; const S: Ansistring) : SizeInt;

    function PosEx(c: AnsiChar; const S: AnsiString; Offset: SizeInt)
               : SizeInt;

    function PosEx(const SubStr: UnicodeString; const S: UnicodeString; 
              Offset: SizeInt) : SizeInt;

    function PosEx(c: WideChar; const S: UnicodeString; Offset: SizeInt)
               : SizeInt;

    function PosEx(const SubStr: UnicodeString; const S: UnicodeString)
               : SizeInt;

    Description

    PosEx returns the position of the first occurrence of the character C or the substring SubStr in the string S, starting the search at position Offset (default 1). If C or SubStr does not occur in S after the given Offset, zero is returned. The position Offset is also searched.

    Errors

    None.

    See also

    Name Description
    NPos Returns the position of the N-th occurrence of a substring in a string.
    AnsiContainsText Check whether a string contains a certain substring, ignoring case.
    AnsiContainsStr Checks whether a string contains a given substring.