Returns the length of a binary tag.
BinaryTagLen( tag-struct, mode )
(s) tag-struct: Structure returned from BinaryTagInit.
(i) mode: 0 length of text; 1 length of text + tags
(s) the length of the text that was found.
Note: This function is useful for editing HTML.
This function can be used after a successful BinaryTagFind, to return the length of the text that was found. It must be used before any subsequent BinaryReplace, since BinaryReplace will change the tag structure.
;BinaryTag Advanced functions ;Note: The BinaryTagIndex and BinaryTagLen ;functions are not generally required or ;used by most scripts using the BinaryTag ;functions. That are provided for the ;unusual case of a requirement to mix ;normal Binary functions with BinaryTag ;functions. ;Set up test case ;Setup input and output file names filedata=StrCat(DirGet(),"filedata.txt") ;Set up a sample file for this example. ;Presumably you could have a library of these ;to choose from, making form letters easy to ;automate. fhandle=FileOpen(filedata,"WRITE") FileWrite(fhandle,"{{date}}") FileWrite(fhandle,"") FileWrite(fhandle,"Dear {{name}}") FileWrite(fhandle,"Thank you for your recent purchase of") FileWrite(fhandle,"our new {{product}}.") FileWrite(fhandle,"") FileWrite(fhandle,"Please feel free to call if you have ") FileWrite(fhandle,"any questions.") FileWrite(fhandle,"") FileWrite(fhandle,"{{salesperson}}") FileWrite(fhandle,"{{salespersonphone}}") FileClose(fhandle) ; Allocate a buffer much larger than required. bb=BinaryAlloc(10000) ;Using {{ and }} for open and close tags around keywords structure=BinaryTagInit(bb,"{{","}}") ;Read data into the BinaryBuffer BinaryRead(bb,filedata) While 1 structure=BinaryTagFind(structure) If structure=="" Then Break ; All done blen=BinaryTagLen(structure,1) bindex=BinaryTagIndex(structure,1) keyword=BinaryTagExtr(structure,1) Pause("After find",StrCat(keyword,@CRLF,"len=",blen,@CRLF,"index=",bindex)) structure = BinaryTagRepl(structure,"dummy data") blen=BinaryTagLen(structure,1) bindex=BinaryTagIndex(structure,1) Pause("After replace",StrCat(keyword,@CRLF,"len=",blen,@CRLF,"index=",bindex)) EndWhile BinaryFree(bb) Exit