Searching for parts of a string

[paues]

Is there any built-in function to search for parts of a string? If we, for example, have the string "fivewordswrittenasone" and want to search to see if the substring "words" can be found therein? That is, I am looking for a function that relates to @wfind as @mid relates to @wmid and thus would return the same as the code below.

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%str="fivewordswrittenasone" %sub="words" !strlen=@len(%str) !sublen=@len(%sub) for !i=1 to !strlen-!sublen+1 %piece=@mid(%str,!i,!sublen) if %piece=%sub then %return=%piece exitloop endif next

[trubador]

I am not sure if this is what you want, but you can try the following:

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!return = @instr(%str,%sub)

which will yield 5. If %sub had not existed in the base string %str, then it would have returned zero.

The following will give you the same result as your code:

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%return = @mid(%str,@instr(%str,%sub),@length(%sub))

[paues]

That was exactly what I was looking for :-) Thank you!