by Avital (2 Submissions)
Category: String Manipulation
Compatability: Visual Basic 3.0
Difficulty: Unknown Difficulty
Originally Published: Tue 8th August 2000
Date Added: Mon 8th February 2021
Rating: 
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Get text item within text items concated to one string
VBcoders
'**************************************************************
'* Perpuse : get text item within text items concated to one string
'* Author : Avital
'* Example : FindTextItem("AA,BB,CC",2) -> BB
'**************************************************************
Dim i As Integer
Dim iPos As Integer
'look for item
For i = 1 To iItem - 1
iPos = InStr(sText, sSup)
If iPos <> 0 Then
sText = Mid$(sText, iPos + 1)
Else
Exit For
End If
Next i
If i = iItem Then
'item is found, cut sSup if necessary
iPos = InStr(sText, sSup)
If iPos <> 0 Then sText = Mid$(sText, 1, iPos - 1)
Else
'item not found
sText = ""
End If
FindTextItem = sText
End Function
