stristr

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Stristr

Stristr

Summary

Function: string Stristr( string haystack, string needle, integer after_needle );

Returns part of haystack string from the first occurrence of needle to the end of haystack.
Returns a string containing the text from haystack that comes before or after needle.

• string	haystack	–	The input string
• string	needle	–	the search within
• integer	after_needle	–	If TRUE, Stristr returns the part of the haystack after the first occurrence of the needle, otherwise before first occurrence.

Specification

<lsl>//Function created by Ugleh Ulrik string stristr(string haystack, string needle, integer after_needle){

   if(haystack)
   {//we have a haystack, it's not ""
       //Now find us a needle!
       integer pos = llSubStringIndex(haystack, needle);
       if(~pos)
       {//We have found a needle!
           if(after_needle)//return what comes after needle
               return llGetSubString(haystack, pos + llStringLength(needle), -1);
           return llDeleteSubString(haystack, pos, -1);
       }
   }
   return "";

} </lsl>

Examples

This example uses its basic feature, to provide the content left, or right of the searched string. <lsl>default {

   touch_start(integer total_number)
   {
        string source = "Hello there, Ugleh is my name!";
        string mess = stristr(source,"Ugleh",TRUE); //True means after Needle
        llOwnerSay(mess);//outputs  "  is my name!"
        
        mess = stristr(source,"Ugleh",FALSE); //False means before Needle.
        llOwnerSay(mess);//outputs "Hello there, "
   }

}</lsl>

See Also

Functions

•	llSubStringIndex	–	Find a string in another string
•	llParseString2List	–	Split a string up into a list
•	llParseStringKeepNulls	–	Like llParseString2List but it keeps empty strings
•	llListFindList	–	Like llSubStringIndex but for lists