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Middle (Function)

In french: Milieu

Extracts:

a substring from a string starting at a specified position.
part of a buffer starting at a specified position.

Remark: The same feature can be obtained with the [[]] operator.

Versions 21 and later

This function is now available in Universal Windows 10 App mode.

New in version 21

This function is now available in Universal Windows 10 App mode.

Example

// Extract characters
Middle("Eponine", 2, 3) // Returns "pon"
Middle("Eponine", 2) // Returns "ponine"
Middle("Eponine", 50) // Returns ""
Middle("Eponine", 2, 50) // Returns "ponine"
// Equivalent to
// MyString is string = Eponine
// MyString = MyString[[2,50]]

MyString is string = "Antananarivo - Madagascar"
Middle(MyString, 10, 7) // Returns "ivo - M"

// Extract bytes
MyBuffer is Buffer = "Antananarivo - Madagascar"
Middle(MyBuffer, 10, 7) // Returns "ivo - M"

Syntax

Extracting a substring from a string Hide the details

<Result> = Middle(<Initial string> , <Start position> [, <Length>])

<Result>: Character string

Part of <Initial string>.
Empty string ("") if <Start position> is greater than the length of <Initial string>.
EOT if <Start position> and/or <Length> are negative. A WLanguage error occurs (non-fatal error). To get the details of the error, use ErrorInfo.

<Initial string>: Character string

Character string containing the substring to extract. This string is not modified.

<Start position>: Integer

Position of the first character to extract.
If <Start position> is null, the extraction starts at the beginning of the string.

<Length>: Optional integer

Number of characters to extract.
If this parameter is not specified or is greater than the number of characters after <Start position>, the string is returned from <Start position>.

Extracting part of a buffer Hide the details

<Result> = Middle(<Initial buffer> , <Start position> [, <Size>])

<Result>: Character string

Part of <Initial buffer>.
Empty string ("") if <Start position> is greater than the length of <Initial buffer>.
EOT if <Start position> and/or <Size> are negative. A WLanguage error occurs (non-fatal error). To get the details of the error, use ErrorInfo.
Invalid buffer if <Initial buffer> contains a UNICODE string.

<Initial buffer>: Buffer

Buffer containing the part to extract. This buffer is not modified.

<Start position>: Integer

Position of first byte to extract.
If <Start position> is null, the extraction starts at the beginning of the buffer.

<Size>: Optional integer

Number of bytes to extract.
If this parameter is not specified or is greater than the number of characters after <Start position>, the string is returned from <Start position>.

Remarks

Middle and UNICODE

If the string passed as a parameter is in ANSI format, the result will be in ANSI format.

If the string passed as a parameter is in UNICODE format, the result will be in UNICODE format.

Reminder: In UNICODE, each character occupies two bytes of memory. Therefore, the memory footprint of a UNICODE string is twice the number of characters actually contained in the string.

The fist character in the string is at index 1.

Remark: If the result on an ANSI string is assigned to a UNICODE string (and conversely), the conversion will be implicitly performed.

See Managing UNICODE for more details.

Miscellaneous

The same feature can be obtained with the [[]] operator.

Component: wd260vm.dll