I don't have access to the manual ATM, but I did search the forums and couldn't find anything related to this, so...Is there a function like C++'s stringname.find_first_not_of() function? I'm trying to find the first character that isn't one of a specific set of delimeters...Any help would be appreciated.
Nope, you'd need to do it the long way (ie. loop through each character and do an "if (letter == 'A') || (letter == 'B'))" type thing).
Egads! Although I already started writing the code that way (on paper), I had hoped that there would be something easier... Could this possibly be implemented (aka changing this thread to a suggestion...)? I mean, would anyone else find it useful?
Well, the script isn't really that complicated:
int a = 0;
while (a < StrLen(stringname)) {
int theChar = StrGetCharAt(stringname, a);
if ((theChar != 'A') && (theChar != 'B') && (theChar != 'C')) {
Display("The first character that's not one of the delimiters is %c.", theChar);
break;
}
a++;
}
I was thinking it would be harder to handle if you had to run through several characters of several strings with several delimiters, but I'm working on writing some custom functions:
StrFindFirstOf(string text, string delimiters)
StrFindFirstNotOf(string text, string delimiters)
StrFindFirstOfRevers(string text, string delimiters) /* same as StrFindFirstOf only runs from the end of string to the beginning */
StrFindFirstNotOfReverse(string text, string delimiters) /* runs end to beginning of string */