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HP Business BASIC/XL Reference Manual

WORD 

The WORD function returns the position of an embedded substring within a
string.  The substring is considered embedded only if the characters
surround the substring are nonalphabetic.

Syntax 

WORD(S1$,S2$)

Parameters 

S1$              A string expression containing the string to be
                 searched.

S2$              A string expression containing the substring to be found
                 in S1$.

Examples 

     10 A = WORD("cat","a")     !A = 0
     20 B = WORD("a cat","a")   !B = 1
     30 C = WORD("c a t","a")   !C = 3
     40 D = WORD("c,a.t","a")   !D = 3

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