How to find position of curly braces {

[nodochau]

Hello all,
I have the text = {skjfhaf akdjfj}....rdrgjfgj
how to find the position of the curly braces {

Thanks

[Grovkillen]

Use the position command.

[nodochau]

I used it but it did not know the {
pos>{,text,1,res,1 does not work

[Dorian (MJT support)]

It's working for me in v 15.0.18.

left returns 1, right returns 16

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Let>text={skjfhaf akdjfj}....rdrgjfgj
pos>{,text,1,left
pos>},text,1,right

However, if I keep the spaces as per your example, both are 0

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Let>text = {skjfhaf akdjfj}....rdrgjfgj
pos>{,text,1,left
pos>},text,1,right

Unless i ignore spaces :

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let>ignorespaces=1
Let>text = {skjfhaf akdjfj}....rdrgjfgj
pos>{,text,1,left
pos>},text,1,right

[nodochau]

Yes, right. The problem is spaces.
And I got another problem:
If I have a text like this: {30 - 25}
How can I use position command to find the curly brace?
That text will return a number 5 if I do let>text={30 - 25}

Thanks

[Dorian (MJT support)]

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let>text={"{30 - 25}"}
pos>{,text,1,left
pos>},text,1,right

...and this is a wild guess, but I am wondering if your goal is to find the value between the curly braces. Just in case you are, we can use the regex Marcus posted previously. I've used variables to aid understanding/clarity :

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let>mystring={"{30 - 25}"}
let>BEGINNING={
let>END=}
RegEx>(?<=%BEGINNING%).*?(?=%END%),mystring,0,matches,nm,0
mdl>%nm% matches %CRLF%%matches_1%

[nodochau]

Thanks Dorian!