ExtractWord¶

Extract the N-th word out of a string.

Declaration¶

Source position: strutils.pp line 219

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

Arguments¶

Name	Description
N	Which word to extract.
S	String to extract the word from.
WordDelims	Characters to use as word delimiters.

Function result¶

The N-th word, or empty if N is out of range.

Description¶

ExtractWord extracts the N-th word from the string S. The set of characters in WordDelims are used to mark word boundaries. A word is defined as any non-empty sequence of characters which are not present in WordDelims: if a character is not in WordDelims, it is considered as part of a word. If an N-th word cannot be found, an empty string is returned.

Unlike ExtractDelimited, an empty string is not a valid return value, i.e. is not a word. If an empty string is returned, the index N was out of range.

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

Errors¶

None.

See also¶

Name	Description
ExtractWordPos	Extract a word from a string, and return the position where it was located in the string.
ExtractSubStr	Extract a word from a string, starting at a given position in the string.
ExtractDelimited	Extract the N-th delimited part from a string.
IsWordPresent	Check for the presence of a word in a string.
WordCount	Count the number of words in a string.
WordPosition	Search position of Nth word in a string.