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[[Event_Handler]] macro - Extract substring by text scan

Format: '''%sscan(string, search-string)'''

*Scan for ''search-string'', extract rest of ''string'' after first match
*Returns empty string if ''search-string'' not found 
*Useful for parsing [[External_Data_Input]].

Example: Check if EDI text has the string “connect”
 If %strlen(%sscan(%edi,connect))
   ...  
 Endif 


 Example: %sscan(ABCDEFGHI,DEF) will return DEFGHI


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