METADATA FINDTYPE()

Purpose

Function to extract the attributes for a given metatype in a metadata string

Syntax

METADATA_FINDTYPE(<expC1>, <expC2>)

See Also

ACLASS(), ADDPROPERTY(), AMEMBERS(), COLUMNMETADATA(), COMPOBJ(), CREATEOBJECT(), DEFINE CLASS, DISPLAY CLASSES, DODEFAULT(), FOREACH, JSON_DECODE(), JSON_DECODE_FILE(), JSON_ENCODE(), LIST CLASSES, LOADOBJECT(), METADATA_DECODE(), METADATA_ENCODE(), NEWOBJECT(), OBJECT(), PRINT_JSON(), PRINT_HTML(), PRINT_R(), PRINT_XML(), REMOVEPROPERTY(), REQUIRE_ONCE(), SAVEOBJECT(), SQL SELECT, SOCKET_CLOSE(), SOCKET_LASTERROR(), SOCKET_OPEN(), SOCKET_PEEK(), SOCKET_READ(), SOCKET_SERVER(), SOCKET_WRITE(), TABLEMETADATA(), TABLEMETADATAVERSION(), WITH, XML_DECODE_FILE()

Description

The METADATA_FINDTYPE() function is used to extract the attributes for the specified metatype, <expC1> in from the metadata string, <expC2>.

Example

cType1 = METADATA_FINDTYPE("type1", "[type1]name=barry;backcolor=red;[type2]name=bill;backcolor=pink")
? cType1
 
name=barry;backcolor=red
 
cType2 = METADATA_FINDTYPE("type2", "[type1]name=barry;backcolor=red;[type2]name=bill;backcolor=pink")
? cType2
 
name=bill;backcolor=pink