SECTION$ returns returns a section from a document starting and ending with lines containing specific strings
Syntax
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Arguments
- Document$ is
is a string containing the source document.
- PageHeader$ is
is a sub string of Document$ which indicates the first line of the section.
- PageEnd$ is
is a sub string of Document$ that indicates the end of the section.
The result starts with the first line of Document$ containing PageHeader$ and ends with the line just before the line containing PageEnd$.
- AddLines% is
is an optional value, containing the number of lines to be added at the end of the section. E.g. when
AddLines%=1, also the line containing PageEnd$ is included.
- If PageHeader$="NullString", the function returns "NullString".
- If PageHeader$ is not found, the function also returns "NullString".
- If PageEnd$="NullString", the function returns all text from Document starting with PageHeader$.
- If PageEnd$ is not found, the function also returns all text from Document starting with PageHeader$.
- The last line of the result returned by SECTION$() is always terminated by a CrLf (Carriage Return + LineFeed: Chr$(13)+Chr$(10) ). Multiple repeating CrLf's at the end of an extracted section are removed as well as trailing strings from each line in that result.
- One can also use the PARAGRAPH$() function to return a section of a document.
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