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NPos

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

Declaration

Source position: strutils.pp line 138

function NPos(

  const C: String;

  S: String;

  N: Integer

):Integer;

Arguments

C

  

Substring to search for

S

  

String to search.

N

  

Which position to return

Function result

Position of N-th occurrence of the substring, -1 if there is none.

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

WordPosition

  

Search position of Nth word in a string.

FindPart

  

Search for a substring in a string, using wildcards.

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