[jawsscripts] Re: Character Index in String?

There exists user-created functions that return the position in one
string of the first character found in a supplied set of characters.
(I first saw Doug Lee do this, and I snagged the idea from him to use
it privately in my own code, so I know at least two of these kinds of
functions are floating around. GRIN.)

I've also written a subString variant that extracts until the first
character from a supplied set is reached, complete with flags to test
for things like digits, upper/lower case letters, punctuation, and
white space characters. So, in your example, you might call something
like:
subStringTil("Menu:only available in To DVD mode", 1, ":", 0)
"Menu" would be returned.

If anyone wants, I'll be glad to track down the dependant functions
and tidy everything into a module.

HTH,
Jim
Original message
from: "GianniP46" <giannip46@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Character Index in String?
date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:07:10 -0500

>Wouldn't StringChopRight help you with that?
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: Donald Marang 
>  To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>  Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 10:06 PM
>  Subject: [jawsscripts] Character Index in String?
>
>  Hopefully, this is an easy question for you guys.I want to remove all 
> characters in a string after the occurrence of a certain character, lets say 
> ":", and including that character.  I looked at the StringLeft and 
> StringContainsChars functions.  To have these two functions work together, 
> the StringContainsChars would need to return the index where the character 
> was found rather than just a Boolean True or false.  Are there more 
> appropriate functions or methods to accomplish this simple task.  
>  For instance I want to transform the string 
>  "Menu:only available in To DVD mode"
>  to
>  "Menu"
>
>  Don Marang
>
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