want to search within a string

[Aliisonline]

Hi guys! Me thinking of a way to search within a string for a specific text and then copy all characters before the found text like:

as For Example

I have

$title = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX(theses X's can change in number).doc Microsoft Word"

now i want to search within $title and then want to get the text before .doc.....Please keep this in mind that after .doc i sometimes face cases when there is (Read Only) which means that i can't do anything based on fixed length before and after .doc

Me simply want to copy all the text before .doc to a string. So i can use that later

[water]

Use something like

#include <array.au3>
$title = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX(theses X's can change in number).doc Microsoft Word"
$aSplitTitle = StringSplit($title, ".doc", 1)
_ArrayDisplay($aSplitTitle)

$aSplitTitle[1] will contain the required text.

[rudi]

Hi.

This is a task for RegEx:

$title="XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX(theses X's can change in number).doc Microsoft Word"
$title=StringRegExpReplace($title,"(?i)(.*)(?:\.doc.*)","$1")
ConsoleWrite($title & @CRLF)

Regards, Rudi.

[Aliisonline]

Thanks GUYS. Well both ways are working.

But want to ask something more about both.

#include <array.au3> 
$title = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX(theses X's can change in number).doc Microsoft Word" 
$aSplitTitle = StringSplit($title, ".doc", 1) 
_ArrayDisplay($aSplitTitle)
;IF HERE i type MsgBox (0, "Patient List", $aSplitTitle) then it don't display any value

And some confusion about the second one.

Please can you point where can i read information about this (?i)(.*)(?:\.doc.*) I mean i want to read something about the usage of these wild cards.

[water]

;IF HERE i type MsgBox (0, "Patient List", $aSplitTitle) then it don't display any value

StringSplit returns an array so you have to change the statement to:

MsgBox (0, "Patient List", $aSplitTitle[1])

Please can you point where can i read information about this (?i)(.*)(?:\.doc.*) I mean i want to read something about the usage of these wild cards.

This is a regular expression pattern. Please see "StringRegExp" in the help file or here for more details. Edited November 22, 2010 by water