WordPosition ( text ; searchWord ; start ; occurrence )
Returns the word number of the searchWord in the text.
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Daniele Raybaudi - Show more from this author
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WordPosition custom function
Author
Daniele Raybaudi
Type
Recursive
Format
WordPosition ( text ; searchWord ; start ; occurrence )
Parameters
text - any text field, or an expression that returns a reference to a text field.
searchWord - the word to search in the text
start - the word number that you want to start from
occurrence - the occurrence of the word that you want to find
Data type returned
number
Description
Returns the word number of the searchWord in the text.
In the same way that the Position function provides the number of a character position in a text string, WordPosition calculates the word number of a text string.
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Lizhe Xu, East Lyme, CT Aug 26, 2009 |
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| The script does not work properly when the third parameter>1. Take the example above: WordPosition ( "this may be or may be not the best way" ; "be" ; 2;1 ) return 4; When the third parameter is 3, 4, 5, ... the result is 5, 6, 7,... It seems to me there are probably two solutions for it (1) write a subCF, which is recursive and takes 5 parameters: the fifth will be constant number equal to the initial third parameter; (2) the easy solution, delete the third parameter and make it default value 1. |
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Lizhe Xu, East Lyme, CT Aug 26, 2009 |
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| After second thought, the second solution indeed is not so easy, it is still need a subCF, which will accept 4 parameters. I now use your CF in my solution but with the constant value 1 for the third parameter. | ||
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Max Heller, fmax software Apr 13, 2010 |
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| I have fixed the problem Lizhe brought up, and I also added support for a negative value for occurrence. Let( [ count = WordCount( text ); direction = Sign( occurrence ); startWord = MiddleWords( text; start; 1 ) ]; Case( start < 1 or start > count; 0; IsEmpty( text ) or IsEmpty( searchWord ) or IsEmpty( start ) or IsEmpty( occurrence ); ""; startWord ≠searchWord; WordPosition( text; searchWord; start + direction; occurrence ); startWord = searchWord and Abs( occurrence ) ≠1; WordPosition( text; searchWord; start + direction; occurrence - direction ); start ) ) |
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Claudio Cuevas Merino, Santiago Chile Feb 8, 2017 |
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| Thanks you very much for sharing this!, works great! | ||
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