I have an OI program that does something like:

myString=other data STR 233"

Call Msg("Initializing with string ":myString)

Locate "STR" In myString Setting skipPos Then

Call Msg("Found STR")

End Else

Call Msg("No STR found")

End

…to find the position of the substring in a string. This always returns "No STR found". What am I doing incorrectly in determining the position of the substring?

Thank you.

Mat,

Locate is used to find data within delimiters, so you could use

Locate "STR" in myString using ' ' setting skipPos then/else

Alternatively, you might be better using

SkipPos=Index(myString, "STR", 1)

There are various ways of doing string manipulation …

HTH

Simon

You need to include the USING statement, e.g..,

Locate "STR" in myString USING " " Setting …

HTH,

Ray Chan

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