StringScanner.ScanToSmatchI Function

Syntax

Text as C = ScanToSmatchI as C(pattern as c)

Arguments

Text: The text between the starting and ending offset positions.
pattern: The text that you want to find. You may use the "?" (single character) and "*" (any number of characters) expressions.

Description

Skip until a patterns is encountered. Return text we scanned over.

Discussion

The <StringScanner>.ScanToSmatchI() function moves the offset to the beginning of the Find_Text and returns the text between the starting and ending positions of the offset.

Example

dim scanner as P
dim txt as C
txt = <<%text%
This is wonderful text
written by a great writer
%text%
scanner = stringscanner.create(txt)
? scanner.ScanToSmatchI("gr*t")
= This is wonderful text
written by a
? scanner.GetToOffset()
= This is wonderful prose written
by a technical writer of
? scanner.getremainder()
= great merit.