StringScanner.ScanToAlphaNum Function

Syntax

Text as C = ScanToAlphaNum as C()

Arguments

Text: The text between the starting and ending offset positions.

Description

Skip until a alphanumeric character is encountered. Return text we scanned over.

Discussion

The <StringScanner>.ScanToAlphaNum() function moves the offset to the first alphabetic or numeric character.

Example

dim scanner as P
dim txt as C
txt = <<%text%
<..> is wonderful prose written
by a technical writer of note.
%text%
? txt
= <..> is wonderful prose written
by a technical writer of note.
scanner = stringscanner.create(txt)
? scanner.scantoalphanum()
= "<..> "
? scanner.GetToOffset()
= "<..> "
? scanner.getremainder()
= is wonderful prose written
by a technical writer of note.