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The POSITV function is similar to POSIT. However, the lengths of its AnV parameters are based on the actual lengths of those parameters in comparison with two other parameters that specify their sizes.
POSITV(source_string, upper_limit, substring, sub_limit, output_format)
where:
Alphanumeric of type An or AnV
Is the character string that contains the substring whose position you want to find. If it is a field of AnV format, its length is taken from the length-in-bytes of the field. If the upper_limit is smaller than the length, the source_string is truncated to this upper_limit.
Integer
Is a limit for the length of the source_string.
Alphanumeric of type An or AnV
Is the substring whose position you want to locate. If it is a field of type AnV, its length is taken from the length-in-bytes of the field. If the sub_limit is smaller than the length, the source_string is truncated to this sub_limit.
Integer
Is the limit for the length of the substring.
Integer
POSITV finds the starting position of a comma in TITLEV, which would indicate a trailing definite or indefinite article in a movie title (such as ", THE" in SMURFS, THE). LENV is used to determine the length of title. The result is stored in a column with the format I4:
POSITV(TITLEV,LENV(TITLEV,'I4'), ',', 1,'I4')
For “SMURFS, THE”, the result is 7.
For “SHAGGY DOG, THE”, the result is 11.
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