using instr function

[ashley789]

hello

is it possible to use instr function to
locate the next character
for ex within string ( ab_ _ cd_ _ _ e)
instr (1, string, "char")
i would like the function to return
5 for "c" and 9 for "e"

any advice would be much appreciated .
irene

 

[Russell Hauf]

On 2002-09-09 15:11, ashley789 wrote:
hello

is it possible to use instr function to
locate the next character
for ex within string ( ab_ _ cd_ _ _ e)
instr (1, string, "char")
i would like the function to return
5 for "c" and 9 for "e"

any advice would be much appreciated .
irene

I'm not sure I get what you are saying. Can you expand on your example? Maybe even give us a working example from your data: what you have, and what you want to end up with.

Using InStr will give you these numbers:

NumberForE = InStr("abcdefghij","e")
NumberForJ = InStr("abcdefghij","j")

NumberForE will be 5 and NumberForJ will be 10. Not sure if that's what you wanted (I doubt it), but I thought I'd throw it out there anyway. The [Start] argument to InStr is Optional, and if you omit it, it starts at one.

-Russell

 

[ashley789]

russell,
i would like to avoid hardcoding the instr function with a certain character.Since I do not know what the next character might be, I would like the search to be flexible . I was wondering if there is a way to define the arguments within the instr to locate the next first character of the word.
i hope this provides a little more clarity.

ashley

On 2002-09-09 15:42, Russell Hauf wrote:

On 2002-09-09 15:11, ashley789 wrote:
hello

is it possible to use instr function to
locate the next character
for ex within string ( ab_ _ cd_ _ _ e)
instr (1, string, "char")
i would like the function to return
5 for "c" and 9 for "e"

any advice would be much appreciated .
irene

I'm not sure I get what you are saying. Can you expand on your example? Maybe even give us a working example from your data: what you have, and what you want to end up with.

Using InStr will give you these numbers:

NumberForE = InStr("abcdefghij","e")
NumberForJ = InStr("abcdefghij","j")

NumberForE will be 5 and NumberForJ will be 10. Not sure if that's what you wanted (I doubt it), but I thought I'd throw it out there anyway. The [Start] argument to InStr is Optional, and if you omit it, it starts at one.

-Russell

 

[Juan Pablo González]

Ashley, are you trying to find where eac word begins ?

 

[Russell Hauf]

i hope this provides a little more clarity.

Not really. Again, a real example of what you want to do would be of great help. You can pass a variable to the InStr function, but we need to know what you want to do in order to help you do that...
This message was edited by Russell Hauf on 2002-09-10 08:46