Delphi search for text after a defined character

Question

I have a string

String :='this is my string | yes';

I need delphi to get whatever the text is after the |

So something like:

getTextAftertoCharacter('|',String);

This should return "yes" in the example above.

Has Delphi get a function for this?

Answer 1

I'm not aware of a single function that does this. I think the easiest way would be to use Pos and then Copy:

answer := Copy(str, Pos('|', str) + 1, Length(str));

Start character is at Pos('|', str) + 1, amount of characters to copy is actually Length(str)-Pos('|', str), but passing a greater value to Copy also works.

Note: this will return the whole contents of str if there is no '|'. Check for Pos('|', str) being non-zero if you need different behavior.

Answer 2

You can use Controls.GetLongHint():

GetLongHint(String);

That's because the separator of a two part hint is a |. In your example it would return ' yes', with the leading space. If | is not found, the function returns the String.

Answer 3

I'd use then following code:

Trim(RightStr(Text, Length(Text)-LastDelimiter('|', Text)));

It'll locate the last delimiter in the string and I used Trim to get rid of the whitespace. LastDelimiter can take more than one delimiter which may be usefull. If no delimiter is found it will return the whole string.