[jawsscripts] Re: StringContains. can an Ending position be determined?
- From: Jim Bauer <holdsworthfan@xxxxxx>
- To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:20:19 -0500
If pos = stringContains(s, someString) and lSomeString =
stringLength(someString), SomeString's ending position in S will be pos +
lSomeString - 1.
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 03:29:52 +1000, Geoff Chapman wrote:
> Mighty Scripters.
> In wanting to first isolate and reprocess the textual, and also numeric
> Caller ID Numeric components, of a mixed line containing firstly a 3 digit
> number, that's ok as this is constant, then a couple of words that I need to
> isolate, , then sometimes, not always though, a bunch of numbers as a Caller
> ID at the end of these lines, with nothing but what jaws speaks as, Blank, or
> character 0 if you queery it, between these 3 separate components as known
> delimiters,
> well, A much more advanced scripter friend of mine pulled me out of trouble
> bybuilding a little function of his own which annilizes whether a given
> string contains numeric components or not. And I hope to test this tomorrow,
> now that I've finally formed up all the processing around text it needs to
> look for in the Text String status component section, of these lines.
> etc.
>
> However, it occurred to me, to wanna ask, well,
> you know how the StringContains BuiltIn,
> returns the starting position in a given string, where the second parameter
> string your searching for, starts to match,
> well, I wondered, whether any fancy dude up here, may've ever divined some
> magic code/way, of, say, building something which could return the number of
> the ending position of such a string as well?
>
> Would not others find this a handy feature to have sometimes?
>
> I just wondered eh.
>
> Thanks for any thoughts.
>
> geoff c.
>
>
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