Hi, Am Saturday 03 December 2005 12:48 schrieb Terry Lee Tucker: | I have a situation where I need to extract a couple pieces of | information from a string. The string, if entered perfectly by the user, | would look someting like this: DUN: 006235835 SID: KT-3616* | | I need to extract the 006235835 into one variable and the KT-3616 into | another. Both "numbers" can possibly be something other than numbers | alone as in the SID: part of the string above. I have come up with a way | of extracting both pieces of information where, at least in my mind, the | key parameters are the colon (:) and a space, as in the first case, or | asterik (*), as in the second case, marking the end of the string to | extract. given that the strings SID: and DUN: won't change, you could use the following two RE's: 'SID: (.*?)\\*' for extracting the SID part, and 'DUN: (.*?) ' for extracting the DUN part. Ciao, Thomas ---------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Pundt <thomas@xxxxxxxx> -- http://www.pundt.de
