Splits a character delimited string into its components (known as tokens). Returns result as string array.
Character used as delimiter may be passed as argument 2. If argument 2 omitted delimiter defaults to a semi-colon.
| Number | Type | Compulsory | Default | Description |
| 1 | string | Yes | String to scan | |
| 2 | string | No | Delimiter | |
| 3 | real | No | Min number of return values |
String to scan.
Delimiter. Semi-colon if omitted. Only a single character is permitted. To scan with multiple delimiters, see the function Parse .
If present, forces the result to be a minimum size. For example, if the input string had two tokens but this argument was set to three, the result would be a string array of length 3 with the third element an empty string. In many applications, this can save testing the length of the return value to determine if an optional token was provided.
Return type: string array
Returns tokens as an array of strings. Empty fields are treated as a separate token. E.g. in 'BUF04;buf;;Buffers;;' the double semi-colon after 'buf' would return an empty entry in the returned array. So:
Scan('BUF04;buf;;Buffers;;')
would return:
[ 'BUF04', 'buf', ", 'Buffers', "]
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