Find multiple occurrence string

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    Hi,

    I searched the forum but did not find anything that would help me on this, so here it is :

    I'm tiring to build a list/an array with all the character position of a specific substring in a string. For example, it the following : " mfiduA dkdjfA dkA sd " I would like to create an array which would contains [6, 13, 17], which are all the position of each "A" occurrence in that string.

    I basically know how the "Find ( STRING, SUBSTRING, INDEX) works, but I'm only able to use it in a case with a single occurrence of the substring (which would only return a single number).

    So is there an other way to return all positions of all occurrence of a substring ?

    Thanks !

    You can probably do that with the String Parser object.

    Alternatively, you could perhaps copy the string to a temporary alterable string, then use a fastloop to delete each "A" as you find it, then search again for the next "A". I'm not at my PC so don't know if I've got the syntax right, but I'd guess it would be something like this:

    If the first one is at 6, then copy Right$(yourText, Length$(yourText) - 6)) into the temporary alterable string. Then search that alterable string for the next one. And add 6 to the result to make up for the missing characters. And repeat until there are no more "A"s.

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    The built in "find" function takes an argument that specifies the point from which to search, so it's pretty simple to just do repeated searches, starting each one from the previous match, and stopping when there are no more matches.

    + Start of Frame
    -> Start fastloop "find", -1 times

    + On loop "find"
    -> Set Match to Find("blah blah blah", "blah", searchFrom)

    + On loop "find"
    + Match = -1
    -> Stop loop "find"

    + On loop "find"
    + Match > -1
    -> Set searchFrom to Match + 1
    -> Array: Write Match to totalMatches
    -> Add 1 to totalMatches

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