%sscan

Event_Handler macro - Extract substring by text scan

Format: %sscan(string, search-string)

• Scan for search-string, extract rest of string including 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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