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    NPos

    Returns the position of the N-th occurrence of a substring in a string.

    Declaration

    Source position: strutils.pp line 196

    function NPos(const C: string; const S: string; N: Integer) : SizeInt;

    Arguments

    Name Description
    C Substring to search for.
    S String to search.
    N Which position to return.

    Description

    NPos checks S for the position of the N-th occurrence of C. If C occurs less than N times in S, or does not occur in S at all, 0 is returned. If N is less than 1, zero is returned.

    Errors

    None.

    See also

    Name Description
    WordPosition Search position of Nth word in a string.
    FindPart Search for a substring in a string, using wildcards.
    #rtl.system.Pos Search for substring in a string.
    PosEx Search for the occurrence of a character in a string, starting at a certain position.