request for string functions

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1998

It keeps the original formatting. numero = 17558
interpreted = N
texte = (Brian)>Some examples of email addresses that it stopped on:> ESTUCIA@.IX.NETCOM.COM> GARJ 5409@aol.com> bdunn@ewu> aol.pizzagarib.comAt this point I want to line out once more:To reduce errors in mail addresses it is required to check the user inputas accurate as possible. Please, we really nee more sophisticated stringfunctions in WebCat to check user input like email address more easy.A suggestion - with the following additional functions WebCat could handlenearly all situations:---------- [FINDSTRING source=[MyString]&find=hello] -> number returns the starting position of hello in the variable [MyString]---------- [INSERTSTRING source=[MyString]&insert=hello&start=15] Inserts hello into the variable [MyString] at position 15---------- [DELETESTRING source=[MyString]&start=15&end=20] deletes characters 15 to 20 from variable [MyString]---------- [REPLACESTRING source=[MyString]&oldstring=hello&newstring=welcome] replaces all occurences of hello with welcome it should be possible to set newstring to (= nothing)----------Peter__________________________________________Peter Ostry - po@ostry.com - www.ostry.comOstry & Partner - Ostry Internet SolutionsAuhofstrasse 29 A-1130 Vienna Austriafon ++43-1-8777454 fax ++43-1-8777454-21 Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

Re: request for string functions (John Hill 1998) Re: request for string functions (Brian B. Burton 1998) request for string functions (Peter Ostry 1998)

(Brian)>Some examples of email addresses that it stopped on:> ESTUCIA@.IX.NETCOM.COM> GARJ 5409@aol.com> bdunn@ewu> aol.pizzagarib.comAt this point I want to line out once more:To reduce errors in mail addresses it is required to check the user inputas accurate as possible. Please, we really nee more sophisticated stringfunctions in WebCat to check user input like email address more easy.A suggestion - with the following additional functions WebCat could handlenearly all situations:---------- [FINDSTRING source=[MyString]&find=hello] -> number returns the starting position of hello in the variable [MyString]---------- [INSERTSTRING source=[MyString]&insert=hello&start=15] Inserts hello into the variable [MyString] at position 15---------- [DELETESTRING source=[MyString]&start=15&end=20] deletes characters 15 to 20 from variable [MyString]---------- [REPLACESTRING source=[MyString]&oldstring=hello&newstring=welcome] replaces all occurences of hello with welcome it should be possible to set newstring to (= nothing)----------Peter__________________________________________Peter Ostry - po@ostry.com - www.ostry.comOstry & Partner - Ostry Internet SolutionsAuhofstrasse 29 A-1130 Vienna Austriafon ++43-1-8777454 fax ++43-1-8777454-21 Peter Ostry

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