[thelist] string

David Travis dwork at macam.ac.il
Tue Jul 1 05:14:51 CDT 2003


use str.indexOf to detect the position of "and", using this info you can use
substring()

HTH!
David.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stevenson Ngila" <Stevenson at epr.footman-walker.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 11:01 AM
Subject: [thelist] string


>
> Hi,
> If i have a string "john, peter, george and steve",
> how can i get the string after "peter, "
> but before "and";
> such that it's very generic i.e. i don't have to use substring() to
> do the count.
>
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