Extracting first word of no fixed length from a string

[PrintScaffold]

Greetings all!

I wonder if it is possible to extract a first word from a string? For example: "Steel Hardened Polished Blah Blah" would should return "String". The problem is that word can be different and it's length is not fixed. Otherwise I would use SUBSTRING function. Any ideas?

 

[PrintScaffold]

It's ok. I have came up with a workaround: length(splitstring(<string>,"")) returns the length of the string.

 

[JohnRBaker]

Actually I was thinking of something along those lines but just hadn't tried it yet. This is what I've always liked about UG/NX, it's built well enough that you can often force it to give you what you want without fear of abusing it to badly ;-)

John R. Baker, P.E.
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[looslib]

Me, too!

If that east coast software I use was 3/4 as robust as UG/NX, my life would be a lot easier!



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