StringScanner.ScanToString Function

Syntax

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

Arguments

Text: The text between the starting and ending offset positions.
characters: A character string to find.

Description

Skip until text matching string is found. Return text we scanned over.

Discussion

The <StringScanner>.ScanToString() function moves the offset to the beginning of 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 prose written
by a technical writer of great merit.
%text%
scanner = stringscanner.create(txt)
? scanner.ScanToString("writer")
= This is wonderful prose written
by a technical
? scanner.GetToOffset()
= This is wonderful prose written
by a technical
? scanner.getremainder()
= writer of great merit.