StringScanner.ScanOverSmatchI Function

Syntax

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

Arguments

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

Description

Skip over a pattern . Return text we scanned over.

Discussion

The <StringScanner>.ScanOverSmatchI() function looks for Find_Text (case insensitive) at the offset. The offset is positioned immediately after Find_Text.

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.ScanOverSmatchI("Th*s")
= "This"
? scanner.GetToOffset()
= "This"
? scanner.GetRemainder()
=is wonderful prose written
by a technical writer of note.