Crystal Reports for Rational Application Developer Designer Guide

This function will return the first occurrence (in the origin string) of a string that starts with the startStr and ends with endStr.

String

This function will return the first occurrence (in the origin string) of a string that starts with the startStr and ends with endStr. If the endStr is not found, the string starting with startStr until the end of the string is returned.

StringVar strTest := "James and crystal";
ExtractString (strTest,"J","s");

Returns "ame".

StringVar strTest := "James and crystal";
ExtractString (strTest, "", "s");

Returns "Jame".