[This is preliminary documentation and subject to change.]

Gets the start position of the text of the item in the input.

[Visual Basic]
Function GetStart() As Long
[C#]
long GetStart();
[C++]
__int64 GetStart();
[JScript]
function GetStart(): long;

Return Value

The start position of the text of the item in the input.

Remarks

The position returned is an offset from the beginning of the input. The value is -1 if the start position is not known.

If the input is a string, the position is relative to the IFilter.p_lOffsetInFile parameter of the OpenInputString method.

See Also

IFilterItem Interface | Okapi.Library.Filter Namespace | SetStart | GetLength | OpenInputString

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