Procedure

   SpiceInt ncpos_c ( ConstSpiceChar    * str,
                      ConstSpiceChar    * chars,
                      SpiceInt            start  )

Abstract

 
   Find the first occurrence in a string of a character NOT belonging 
   to a collection of characters, starting at a specified location, 
   searching forward. 
 

Required_Reading

 
   SCANNING 
 

Keywords

 
   CHARACTER 
   SEARCH 
   UTILITY 
 

Brief_I/O

 
   VARIABLE  I/O  DESCRIPTION 
   --------  ---  -------------------------------------------------- 
   str        I   Any character string. 
   chars      I   A collection of characters. 
   start      I   Position to begin looking for one not in chars. 
 
   The function returns the index of the first character of str 
   at or following index start that is not in the collection chars. 
 

Detailed_Input

 
   str        is any character string. 
 
   chars      is a character string containing a collection of
              characters.  Spaces in chars are significant, including
              trailing blanks.  The order in which characters are
              listed is not significant.
 
   start      is the position in str to begin looking for characters
              not in chars.  start may range from 0 to n-1, where n is
              the number of characters in str.
 

Detailed_Output

 
   The function returns the index of the first character of str (at or
   following index start) that is not one of the characters in the
   string chars.  The returned value normally ranges from 0 to n-1,
   where n is the number of characters in str. If no such character is
   found, the function returns -1.
 

Parameters

 
   None. 
 

Exceptions

  
   1) The error SPICE(NULLPOINTER) is signaled if either of 
      the input string pointers is null.

   2) If start is less than 0, the search begins at the first 
      character of the string. 
 
   3) If start is greater than or equal to the length of the string, 
      ncpos_c returns -1. 

   4) The function returns -1 if either of the input strings is empty.

Files

 
   None. 
 

Particulars

 
   ncpos_c is case sensitive. 
 
   An entire family of related CSPICE routines

      cpos_c
      cposr_c
      ncpos_c
      ncposr_c 
      pos_c
      posr_c 

   is described in the Required Reading. 
  

Examples

 
   Let string == "BOB, JOHN, TED, AND MARTIN    " 
                  012345678901234567890123456789 

   Let chars  == "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" 


   Normal (Sequential) Searching: 
   ------------------------------ 

      ncpos_c( string, chars,  0 ) ==  3
      ncpos_c( string, chars,  4 ) ==  4 
      ncpos_c( string, chars,  5 ) ==  9 
      ncpos_c( string, chars, 10 ) == 10 
      ncpos_c( string, chars, 11 ) == 14 
      ncpos_c( string, chars, 15 ) == 15 
      ncpos_c( string, chars, 16 ) == 19 
      ncpos_c( string, chars, 20 ) == 26 
      ncpos_c( string, chars, 27 ) == 27 
      ncpos_c( string, chars, 28 ) == 28 
      ncpos_c( string, chars, 29 ) == 29 
 
   start out of bounds: 
   -------------------- 

      ncpos_c( string, chars, -12 ) ==  3 
      ncpos_c( string, chars,  -1 ) ==  3 
      ncpos_c( string, chars,  30 ) == -1 
      ncpos_c( string, chars, 122 ) == -1
 

Restrictions

 
   None. 
 

Literature_References

 
   None. 
 

Author_and_Institution

 
   N.J. Bachman    (JPL) 
   W.L. Taber      (JPL) 
 

Version

 
   -CSPICE Version 1.0.0, 14-AUG-2002 (NJB) (WLT)

Index_Entries

 
   forward search for position of unlisted character 
 

Link to routine ncpos_c source file ncpos_c.c