Error Messages/40910

Error message examples

The value passed to the «subPattern» parameter of SplitText must be a number or text.

Cause

You did not pass a number or a text as the «subPattern» parameter to the SplitText function. The «subPattern» parameter can be used to specify the separator when using regular expressions with the SplitText function. Please click on the following link to learn more about using regular expression with SplitText.

Example of calling SplitText using regular expressions:

SplitText('17.5 19 1. .5 0.1111', '(\d(?<a>\.)\d)|(?<a>\s+)', re: 1, subpattern: 'a') →

['17','5','19','1.','.5','0','1111']

Remedies

Specify either the subpattern number or the subpattern name as the «subPattern» parameter to SplitText.

See Also

• SplitText
• Regular Expressions