Is there is simple way in QUIZ to find the position of the la st embedded space in a character string?

[Whittall, Conrad]

Friday afternoon and I needed a little "light" diversion :-)

This might be what you're looking for...

DEFINE position_of_last_space   NUMBER*4                          &
     = SIZE ( TRUNCATE ( string_to_search ) )                     &
     - INDEX ( REVERSE ( TRUNCATE ( string_to_search ) ), " " )   &
     + 1

Best regards,
Conrad

-----Original Message-----
From: George_DeWolf@midhosp.org [mailto:George_DeWolf@midhosp.org]
Sent: Friday 16 November 2001 14:53
To: powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
Subject: Is there is simple way in QUIZ to find the position of the last
e mbedded space in a character string?


For example, if I have the following string where [sp] indicates a space

"ABC[sp]D[sp][sp]E"

I would like a value of 7 to be returned.  I'm using version 8.19.C5 of Quiz
on the HP3000.

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