StringTokenizer.AddDelimiter(String) Method

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Description

Adds a literal delimiter string to the StringTokenizer.Delimiters StringArray and then returns the size of the array.

 

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Method Signature

StringTokenizer.AddDelimiter(

String delimiter)

 

 

Arguments

delimiter

Description:

Delimiter to add to the StringTokenizer.Delimiters StringArray for parsing a string.

 

 

 

Return Value

Type:

number

 

 

Returns the size of the StringTokenizer.Delimiters StringArray.

 

Syntax

myVariable1 = myStringTokenizer1.AddDelimiter(myString1);

 

 

Example 1

The example below shows how to use the StringTokenizer.Delimiters property and AddDelimiter/RemoveDelimiter methods to parse a string.

 

StringTokenizer ST;

ST.StringToParse = "apple orange banana,grape,pear;kiwi";

Report ST.Delimiters, ST.Delimiters.Count, ST.Tokens, ST.Tokens.Count;

 

// Add delimiters to tokenizer

ST.AddDelimiter(";");

ST.AddDelimiter(",");

Report ST.Delimiters, ST.Delimiters.Count, ST.Tokens, ST.Tokens.Count;

 

// Remove a delimiter from tokenizer

ST.RemoveDelimiter(";");

Report ST.Delimiters, ST.Delimiters.Count, ST.Tokens, ST.Tokens.Count;

 

 

Output:

 

ST.Delimiters

ST.Delimiters.Count

ST.Tokens

ST.Tokens.Count

" "  

1

{apple        

orange        

banana,grape,pear;kiwi}

3

{" ", ";" ","}

3

{apple        

orange        

banana        

grape        

pear        

kiwi}

6

{" ", ","}

2

{apple        

orange        

banana        

grape        

pear;kiwi}

5

 

 

 

See also

StringTokenizer Object

Parsing Arbitrary String Data