Re hashing tip

GCC Consulting gccconsulting at comcast.net
Tue Jan 15 10:20:59 PST 2008


Just quoting what was there.

Also, instr will "replace" characters where this will tell you where the
first instance is.

Richard

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> 
> Y'all catch dis heeyah?  Richard Kreiss been jivin' 'bout like:
> > Stuart notes that this function will seek and of a group of
> characters not
> > just one as INSTR.
> 
> When did INSTR stop working for multiple character strings?
> 
> 4.0  INSTR(n,m,s)       Look for field "m" in field "n" starting
>                         at position "s" returns starting location in
> "n";
>                         "s" is optional. (defaults to 1)
> 
> Note "field" not "character".
> 
> I've used it for multiple character searches in 5.0.10 as recently as
> this
> last fall.  Works fine.
> 
> mark->
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