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POSLOWER()
Finds the position of the first lower case alphabetic character
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Syntax
POSLOWER(<cString>,[<lMode>],[<nIgnore>])
--> nPosition
Arguments
<cString> Designates the string that is searched.
<lMode> Designates how the function searches for the first lower
case alphabetic character. The default value (.F.) searches for the
first alphabetic character that can be changed by the CA-Clipper
function UPPER().
<nIgnore> Designates the number of characters at the beginning of
the character string that are excluded from the search. The default
value excludes none (0).
Returns
The value returned corresponds to the position of the character located.
When no matching character is found, the function returns 0.
Description
Starting from the beginning of the string, POSLOWER() searches for the
first lower case alphabetic character in <cString>. If <lMode> is .T.,
the function searches for the first non-alphabetic character that would
not be changed by UPPER(). The <nIgnore> parameter excludes a specific
number of characters at the beginning of the <cString> from the search.
Notes
. Characters located when the <lMode> parameter is designated as
.T. are not necessarily upper case, alphabetic characters.
. The function works in conjunction with the NATION module
because different languages use different characters to represent
their alphabets.
Example
cString := "123ABCuabc"
? POSLOWER(cString) // Result: 7
? POSLOWER(cString, .T.) // Result: 1
? POSLOWER(cString, .F., 7) // Result: 8
See Also:
POSALPHA()
POSUPPER()
POSRANGE()
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