FGL Documentation

attoken( ) Function

Description:

The attoken() function returns the offset of the nOccur occurrence of a token delimined by cDelims within cDest. The cDelims parameter can contain a string of multiple delimiters. If the token is not found, -1 is returned.

Syntax:

retval = attoken( cDest, cDelims, nOccur )

Parameters:

	string: cDest	String to search in.
	string: cDelims	Delimiters to search for.
	numeric: nOccur	Occurrence of cDelims to look for.
	numeric: retval	The offset within cDest of the nOccur token delimited by cDelims or -1 if not found.

Platforms:

Windows, DOS, Internet Active Pages

Example:


	local var1, var2, var3, retval          // Variables
	var1 = {a,b,c,a,b,c,a,b,c,a,b,c}	// Search String
	var2 = prompt( "Pick a,b or c", "", 1 )
	var3 = prompt( "Pick a number 1 to 4", "", 1)
	retval = attoken( var1, var2, var3 )
	
	println( retval )