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ebenton1-Visitor
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January 20, 2010
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instring function in ACL

  • January 20, 2010
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I am looking for an ACL function that will do what the VB function instr() does, which searches one string to see if it contains another string; e.g., to see if "to" is in "Benton" (it is!).

Anyone?

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    ptc-30501501-Visitor
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    January 20, 2010
    See the ACL Reference PDF manual or help 638.

    I just started using SUBSTR myself a few days ago. Commands include SUB, SUBSTR, GSUB, REPLACE.

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    DavidA.Helfinst1-Visitor
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    January 20, 2010
    And don't forget the ever popular index() and rindex() functions in ACL.

    index(s1, s2);

    This function returns the position in string s1 of the first occurrence of string s2, based at 1. If the substring is not found, 0 is returned. For example, the value of index("rnotes9302", "9302") would be 7.

    Thanks.

    - Dave H.

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