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COL2
Syntax
COL2( )
Description
The UniBasic COL2 function returns the column position following a substring
found by the FIELD function. The COL2 function has no arguments. If you do not
execute the FIELD before executing COL2, the function returns a zero. COL2
supports multibyte languages.
The FIELD function examines a string for a particular delimiter and returns the
substring marked by the specified occurrence of that delimiter. While the FIELD
function returns the substring itself, the COL2 function returns the position immediately
after the substring within the string sent to the FIELD function.
Example
In the following example, the FIELD function searches the string STRING for the
third occurrence of the delimiter “,”. FIELD assigns the substring “10” to the variable
SSTR. The COL1 function assigns column 9, the column position of the character
after “10”, to the variable SPOS2.
STRING = "11,20,10,15,20,15"
SSTR = FIELD(STRING,",",3)
SPOS2 = COL2()
Related Commands
UniBasic
COL1, FIELD, INDEX
COL2 1-158