Sindex

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Overview

A spel function which, although much diffrent in syntax, works similar to regex (Regular Expression) string matches found in most other programming languages.

Usage

sindex("string","match");

Unknown if any wildcards are supported

Results

Sindex will return a -1 is no match is found or a 0 if a match is made.

Examples

• If statement using sindex (matching a string against a string)

if (sindex("test string", "test")==0) {return;}

• Pushing the results of sindex into a variable (matching a string in another variable)

int results;
results=sindex(group.id, "776B094702EABB4B87F04A139E72D44B");
if (results==-1) {
      set_return_data("No Match");
} else {
      set_return_data("Match!");
}