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WordOnly()

Removes all words (2-byte sequence) but the specified ones from a string

Syntax

WordOnly( <cWordList>, <cString> ) --> cResult

Arguments

<cWordList>

This is a character string holding 2-byte sequences (words) to ignore in <cString>.

<cString>

This is the character string to process.

Return

The function searches for 2-byte sequences (words) in <cString> and removes all of the words in the result string that do not exist in <cWordList>.

Info

See also:	CharOnly()
Category:	CT:String manipulation , Character functions
Source:	ct\charonly.c
LIB:	xhb.lib
DLL:	xhbdll.dll

Example

// The example displays results of WordOnly()

   PROCEDURE Main
      LOCAL cString := "abab12cd1212cdefef"

      ? WordOnly( "12"  , cString )   // result: 121212

      ? WordOnly( "abef", cString )   // result: ababefef

   RETURN