OS/2 Procedures Language 2/REXX


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WORDPOS




 >>---WORDPOS(phrase,string--+---------+--)-------><
                             +-,start--+

WORDPOS searches string for the first occurrence of the sequence of 
blank-delimited words phrase, and returns the word number of the first 
word of phrase in string.  Multiple blanks between words in either phrase 
or string are treated as a single blank for the comparison, but otherwise 
the words must match exactly. 
By default, the search starts at the first word in string. You can 
override this by specifying start (which must be positive), the word at 
which to start the search. 
Here are some examples: 

WORDPOS('the','now is the time')              ->  3
WORDPOS('The','now is the time')              ->  0
WORDPOS('is the','now is the time')           ->  2
WORDPOS('is   the','now is the time')         ->  2
WORDPOS('is   time ','now is   the time')     ->  0
WORDPOS('be','To be or not to be')            ->  2
WORDPOS('be','To be or not to be',3)          ->  6
  

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