Hello everyone
The "find" string function returns the position of the first occurrence of a substring in the target chain.
In the event that it finds nothing, what does it send back? -1 or something else?
Thank you for your help
Hello
Which software does this concern? SolidWorks, Excel, VBA?
I would be tempted to say that it returns 0 or nothing.
It can't be very complicated to do a test, right?
More info about FIND in vba:
http://www.commentcamarche.net/faq/36886-vba-recherche-de-donnees-la-methode-find
If no result, the statement returns "Nothing".
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It's PDM if I understood correctly
@+;-))
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I hadn't seen the title of the page (of the tab).
For EPDM, FIND should return null or nothing, but I maintain that it must be very simple to do a test! Do a bogus search with anything.
This is indeed the find function of ePDM and more specifically in the "dispatch" add-in.
FYI. This function returns 0 if the found string is in the first position. (Positioning starts at Zero). But the documentation says nothing when the string is not found. (Same thing for "left", "right", "mid", etc...)
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An example where the search will "probably" not find a result to test:
fdlsjkvhqmsdfjqzerltjgsdflmiglmdihnsbqzedsfqlmdfjmld
:D
Indeed, FIND must return -1, as shown here:
"Running the dispatch on a file that contains a space in its name. returns value of -1, which means there are no spaces found."
https://forum.solidworks.com/thread/73505
Other source: https://forum.solidworks.com/thread/60319
"1. Create <your variable> with value Find(%PathToSelectedFile%, \Designs\PDF's\)
All files in folder \Designs\PDF's\ will return a value that is not equal to -1. File that are not in this folder will return value -1."
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Thank you .PL for your help.
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No worries:)