StringScanner.ScanToCharacter Function

Syntax

Text as C = ScanToCharacter as C(characters as c)

Arguments

Text: The text between the starting and ending offset positions.
characters: One or more characters to find.

Description

Skip until one of the characters specified is encountered. Return text we scanned over.

Discussion

The <StringScanner>.ScanToCharacter() function moves the offset to the first character that it finds in the Find_Chars string. Note : Find_Chars is interpreted as a list of characters, not as a word.

Example

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