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SearchBuf

Search a buffer for a certain string.

Declaration

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function SearchBuf(

  Buf: PChar;

  BufLen: Integer;

  SelStart: Integer;

  SelLength: Integer;

  SearchString: String;

  Options: TStringSearchOptions

):PChar;

function SearchBuf(

  Buf: PChar;

  BufLen: Integer;

  SelStart: Integer;

  SelLength: Integer;

  SearchString: String

):PChar;

Arguments

Buf

  

Buffer to search

BufLen

  

Length of the buffer.

SelStart

  

Start of selection.

SelLength

  

Length of selection.

SearchString

  

String to search for.

Options

  

Search options

Function result

Position of the string

Arguments

Buf

  

Buffer to search

BufLen

  

Length of the buffer.

SelStart

  

Start of selection.

SelLength

  

Length of selection.

SearchString

  

String to search for.

Function result

Position of the string

Description

SearchBuf searches the buffer Buf for the occurrence of SearchString. At must Buflen characters are searched, and the search is started at SelStart+SelLength. If a match is found, a pointer to the position of the match is returned. The parameter Options specifies how the search is conducted. It is a set of the following options:

Option Effect
soDown Searches forward, starting at the end of the selection. Default is searching up
soMatchCase Observe case when searching. Default is to ignore case.
soWholeWord Match only whole words. Default also returns parts of words

The standard constant WordDelimiters is used to mark the boundaries of words.

The SelStart parameter is zero based.

Errors

Buflen must be the real length of the string, no checking on this is performed.

See also

FindPart

  

Search for a substring in a string, using wildcards.

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.

ExtractSubStr

  

Extract a word from a string, starting at a given position in the string.

IsWordPresent

  

Check for the presence of a word in a string.

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