GetToken

Determines whether a token of the list in the delimiters parameter is present in a string.

Returns the token found at position index of the string, as a string. If index is greater than the number of tokens in the string, returns an empty string.

Method Signature

GetToken(string=[string], index=[integer], delimiter=[string])

Arguments

Argument	Type	Required	Description	Default
string	string	true	string list to filter entries from
index	integer	true	numeric the one-based index position to retrieve the value at
delimiter	string	false	string the list delimiter	,

Examples

Tag Syntax

In the following example, the function call requests element number 2 from the string, using the delimiter '[:;".'

<bx:output>
<bx:set mystring = "four," & char( 32 ) & char( 9 ) & char( 10 ) & ",five, nine,zero:;" & char( 10 ) & "nine,ten:, eleven:;twelve:;thirteen," & char( 32 ) & char( 9 ) & char( 10 ) & ",four" >
getToken(mystring, 3) is : #getToken( mystring, 3 )#
</bx:output>

Additional Examples

Run Example

token_test = GetToken( "yellow,red:,orange,blue:;,lavender,pink:;", 2, ":" );
writeDump( token_test );

Related

• ListAppend

• ListAvg

• ListChangeDelims

• ListCompact

• ListContains

• ListContainsNoCase

• ListDeleteAt

• ListEach

• ListEvery

• ListFilter

• ListFind

• ListFindNoCase

• ListFirst

• ListGetAt

• ListGetEndings

• ListIndexExists

• ListInsertAt

• ListItemTrim

• ListLast

• ListLen

• ListMap

• ListNone

• ListPrepend

• ListQualify

• ListReduceRight

• ListRemoveDuplicates

• ListRest

• ListSetAt

• ListSome

• ListSort

• ListToArray

• ListTrim

• ListValueCount

• ListValueCountNoCase