gettaglocations
PAGE
,
PREFIX
,
SUFFIX
,
POSITIONS
The gettaglocations statement locates all matching tags within some text.
Parameters
This statement has four parameters:
page – text that may contain tag.
prefix – opening tag.
suffix – closing tag.
positions – returns a carriage return separated Text Array. Each line contains the position of the tag, a semicolon, then the length of the tag.
Description
This statement locates all matching tags within some text. This example assumes the current database has a field named Page that contains HTML.
local fontSpots
gettaglocations Page,"<font",">",fontSpots
If the Page field contains one or more font tags, the fontSpots variable will be set to something like this.
173;12
219;18
342;20
See Also
- gettaglocation -- locates the first matching tag within some text.
- settagdata -- changes the contents of a tag.
- setxtagvalue -- changes the contents of a tag.
- tagarray( -- builds an array (see Text Arrays) containing the body of all the specified tags (usually HTML tags) in the text.
- tagcount( -- counts the number of times a specified tag (usually an HTML tag) appears in the text. See Tag Parsing for more information on HTML tags.
- tagdata( -- extracts the body of the specified tag (usually an HTML tag) in the text. See Tag Parsing for more information on HTML tags.
- tagend( -- returns the ending position of the specified tag (usually an HTML tag) in the text.
- tagnumber( -- checks to see if a specified position is inside of a tag (usually an HTML tag).
- tagparameter( -- extracts the value of a tag parameter embedded in some text, where the tag parameter takes the form *name=value*.
- tagstart( -- returns the starting position of the specified tag (usually an HTML tag) in the text.
- tagstrip( -- removes tags (usually HTML tags) from within a piece of text.
- xtag( -- generates an HTML/XML tag.
- xtagvalue( -- extracts the text from the first matching HTML or XML tag.
History
| 10.0 | No Change | Carried over from Panorama 6.0. |