word search

[Joe Chasan]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 10:34:06AM -0500, Richard D. Williams wrote:
> Is there a way to locate the starting position of a word in a text field?
> I have tried using strtok, but it finds the position of the first 
> character of the word.
> i.e.  string = "This is a test.", find "test", it return the number "1". 
> The first occurance of the letter t.

try INSTR instead of STRTOK
 
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