NET/MASTER Network Control Language (NCL) Reference Manual

WORD
Built-in Functions
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WORD The WORD built-in function extracts a specified word from a string.
WORD( string , n )
string
specifies the string from which the word is to be extracted.
n
specifies the word position (counted from the left of the string) of the required
word. n must be a positive whole number. If n specifies a word position beyond
the end of the string, a null string is returned.
Consideration
See also SUBWORD, which extracts a substring from a string, starting from a specified
word in the string.
Examples
In the following example, the second word of the string “This is a message” is
returned. The output string is “is”:
&A = This is a message
&B = 2
&RESULT = WORD(&A,&B)
In the following example, the sixth word of the string “This is a message” is to be
returned. The output string is a null string because there are only four words in the
given string:
SAY WORD(This is a message,6)