StringScanner.SkipToString Function

Syntax

Result_Flag as L = SkipToString as l(characters as c)

Arguments

Result_Flag: True if the string was found.
characters: The character string to search for.

Description

Skip until text matching string is found. Return true if successful.

Discussion

The <StringScanner>.SkipToString() function moves the offset to the beginning of of Find_Text. The offset does not move if it is already pointing to Find_Text.

Example

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