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    WordPosition

    Search position of Nth word in a string.

    Declaration

    Source position: strutils.pp line 218

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

    Arguments

    Name Description
    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

    See also

    Name Description
    WordCount Count the number of words in a string.
    StdWordDelims Standard word delimiter values.
    ExtractWord Extract the N-th word out of a string.
    ExtractWordPos Extract a word from a string, and return the position where it was located in the string.