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Reference for unit 'strutils' (#rtl)

FindPart

Search for a substring in a string, using wildcards.

Declaration

Source position: strutils.pp line 172

function FindPart(

const HelpWilds: string;

const InputStr: string

):Integer;

Arguments

`HelpWilds`		Search string, may contain wildcards.
`InputStr`		String to search in.

Function result

String matching the search expression.

Description

FindPart searches the string InputStr and returns the first string that matches the wildcards specification in HelpWilds . If no match is found, and empty string is returned. Currently, the only valid wildcards is the "?" character.

Errors