pos(string,substring)

Description

gives the position of substring in the string position starts with 1 at the left end returns 0 if no match found.

Example

trim(substr(ITT,pos(ITT, 'Source:')+7))
returns a part of the item text after "Source:" tag

• pos(ITT,'Source:') returns a position of "Source:" tag in the item text
• +7 to compensate for the length of Source:
• substr() returns part of the string starting from the given position
• trim() deletes leading and tracing spaces

++:!I:trim(substr(ITT,pos(ITT,'Comment:')+8)):ITT~='Comment:'

• putting a part of the item text after Comment: tag into a Comments folder.
• ITT~='Comment:' condition checks whether the item contains Comment:

Related Rules

rpos()