While loop in a string

[Option_Explicit]

Ok I'll ask this first, then I'll post some sort of example of what I actually want to do.
If I GetDelimited string....I need to extract one part of it, it's going to be a different length every time, but I can get the first and last positions on each side of the string part I want.
Once I get my first <start at position>, how do I tell it when to end? I need to be able to say...
Find in string "{" - get position (position 32)
now start from position 32 and get the next 56 characters after that position and return to %newstring%
Would this need a while loop in the string to do this?
Ideas? or I'll be more specific in what I'm trying to accomplish here next post.

[Worm]

Re: While loop in a string

I'm not quite sure I understand what your asking. If you have delimited string, then you need only do:
%NewString% = String.GetDelimitedString ("a;;b;;cat;;d", ";;", 3)
NewString would equal "cat", it doesn't matter about the length, it simply takes the third string that is between the delimiters.

If your asking how to get the middle of a string,
%NewString% = String.Mid ("This is a sample", 5, 2)
NewString would equal "is"

The code is saying start at character 5 and return the next 2 characters.

So I think your looking at something like this:
%FoundPos% = String.Find ("%YourString", "{", 0)
%NewString% = String.Mid ("%YourString%", %FoundPos%, 56)

[Option_Explicit]

Re: While loop in a string

Worm......I love ya
Works 100%
What I was doing, is making a process to search for .dbx mail files on a Local Drive.
Then find the CLSID and User name associated with them, (lost or otherwise)
Create a folder named the CLSID name for each set found, and copy all the contents from each corresponding CLSID key into their own folder.

[Worm]

Re: While loop in a string

Awww Shucks!

[Corey]

Re: While loop in a string

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Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software