Get text before certain character, and after?

[Dracil]

If i have $obj = "Hello $Me"

How can i grab "Hello" and "Me" from that string?

Any advice?

[bogQ]

$days = StringSplit("Sun,Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu,Fri,Sat", ",")

;$days[1] contains "Sun" ... $days[7] contains "Sat"

flag = 1, entire delimiter string is needed to mark the split

Edited January 14, 2010 by bogQ

[Dracil]

Ok that looks good so far,

so if its

$days = StringSplit("Hey man $aha", " $")
MsgBox(0,"",$days[1]) MsgBox(0,"",$days[3])

It works, but the problem is it can end up without the " $"

$days = StringSplit("Hey girl", " $") 
MsgBox(0,"",$days[1]) MsgBox(0,"",$days[3])

And that wont let me run it.

[Hawkwing]

soooo....

$days[3] = "$" & $days[3]

[somdcomputerguy]

$Me is already set somewhere, why StringSplit it out from somewhere else? Edited January 14, 2010 by snowmaker

[Dracil]

$days[3] = "$" & $days[3]

Uh what ?

$obj changes it can be

$obj = "Hello $Me" 
$obj = "Hello $Doll"
 $obj = "Hello"

When its just "Hello" it crashes with stringsplit

[scriptjunkie]

You could use stringinstr to see if "$" is in the string.

[somdcomputerguy]

If $obj = "Hello $Me" or "Hello $Whatever" already, why does that string need to be StringSplit out of itself and set to something else? Why not just use $obj, again?

Edit: Does $obj always but only sometimes have "Hello"? If the string <> "Hello", or if it's more than 5 chars, or some other thing.., then put a StringSplit to it..

Edited January 15, 2010 by snowmaker

[Hawkwing]

Oh, I thought you wanted the "$" back on after the stringsplit.

[Dracil]

Well if the $obj is not only "hello" if its "hello $mia" i need to get into into to seperate strings. i need the "mia" in one and "hello" in one, the "hello" can also change u see.

[Hawkwing]

StringRegExp might be the easiest way then.

[Dracil]

Can i use StringRegExp to get all data before " $" and then use it again to get everything after " $" and if there is no " $" it shud just return something empty right ?

[Mison]

$obj changes it can be

$obj = "Hello $Me" 
$obj = "Hello $Doll"
 $obj = "Hello"

When its just "Hello" it crashes with stringsplit

Check if StringSplit was successful:

#include <array.au3> ; for _ArrayDisplay
$obj = "Hello $Me" 
$result = StringSplit($obj," ")
If @error Then  $result = $obj
If IsArray($result) Then
    _ArrayDisplay($result)
Else
    MsgBox(0,"",$result)
EndIf

[jchd]

Does this work in all cases the way you need?

#include <Array.au3>
Local $str[6] = ["Hello$World!", "Hello$", "Hello", "$World!", "$", ""], $ret
For $i = 0 To UBound($str) - 1
    $ret = StringRegExp($str[$i], "([^$]*)\$?([^$]*)?", 1)
    _ArrayDisplay($ret, "Split of '" & $str[$i] & "'")
Next

[Malkey]

Ok that looks good so far,

so if its

$days = StringSplit("Hey man $aha"," {:content:}quot;)
MsgBox(0,"",$days[1]) MsgBox(0,"",$days[3])

It works, but the problem is it can end up without the " $")

$days = StringSplit("Hey girl", " $") 
MsgBox(0,"",$days[1]) MsgBox(0,"",$days[3])

And that wont let me run it.

For future reference, I direct your attention to the parameters of StringSplit in the help file.

You are using "0", the default flag parameter, which is wrong, because you are using more than one character as the delimiter to mark the split/s in the string.

#include <Array.au3>
$days = StringSplit("Hey man $aha", " $", 3)
_ArrayDisplay($days)

Edit: Change the the automatic change of " $" to " {:content:}quot; back to " $"

Edit2: And again.

Edited January 15, 2010 by Malkey

[Mison]

Also, for your future reference, if you are using more than one character(say "xy") with default flag, string will be splitted by the delimeter "x" OR "y".

Example:

#include <array.au3>
$a = "111x222y333"
$b = StringSplit($a,"xy")
_ArrayDisplay($b)

Edited January 15, 2010 by Mison