Something like charIndex, but in a variable...

[J. Landman Gay]

Will the offset function work? 

put the number of chars in line 1 to 14 of tVar into tCount
put offset(startChar, line 15 of tVar)  + tCount into tStart
put offset(endChar, line 15 of tVar)  + tCount into tEnd


On April 30, 2015 3:07:05 AM CDT, Malte Brill <revolution at derbrill.de> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I need to find the start and end character of chuncks in a variable. If
>we are in a field we can use charIndex for that. However, in a variable
>I have no good idea on how to do something similar to
>
>get charIndex(token 7 of line 15 of field „myField“)
>
>
>Any ideas?
>
>All the best,
>
>Malte
>
>
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