How to search text

[NicePerson]

In this line:

<a href="/user/UserName" onmousedown="yt.analytics.trackEvent

how to show text in msgbox which is between the <a href="/user/ AND " onmousedown="yt.analytics.trackEvent?

[Melba23]

NicePerson,

Either use _StringBetween or an SRE like this:

#Include <String.au3>

$sText = '<a href="/user/UserName" onmousedown="yt.analytics.trackEvent'

$aResult = _StringBetween($sText, "/user/", '" on' )

MsgBox(0, "Result", $aResult[0])

$sResult = StringRegExpReplace($sText, '.*?\/user\/(.*?)".*', "$1")

MsgBox(0, "Result", $sResult)

To explain the SRE a bit:

.*? - the smallest non-capturing group of characters before...

\/user\/ - the non-capturing group '/user/' (we have to escape the slashes)

(.*?) - the smallest capturing group (because we are interested in this bit) after the previous groups and before...

".*? - the longest non-capturing group beginning with "

$1 - replace the string with the first capturing group (what we were looking for)

Makes your brain bleed!

I hope all that makes sense - please ask if not.

M23

[NicePerson]

Thanks alot Melba, all clear!

[NicePerson]

$Line = '(<span name="item-count">3563</span>)'
MsgBox(0,"",StringRegExpReplace($Line, '.*?\/count">\/(.*?)</span>).*', "$1"))

What is wrong ?

[NicePerson]

$Line = '(<span name="item-count">500</span>)'
MsgBox(0,"",StringRegExpReplace($Line, '.*?\/count">\/(.*?)</span>).*', "$1"))

What is wrong ? Edited January 1, 2011 by NicePerson

[Jos]

$Line = '(<span name="item-count">3563</span>)'
MsgBox(0,"",StringRegExpReplace($Line, '.*?count">(.*?)<\/span>\).*', "$1"))

[NicePerson]

Thanks