Read folder name, then remove part of it

[cookiemonster]

Hi,

Ive got a folder called '123 - abc'

I need to read this folder name then remove anything after the first white space and leave this in a varible.

So it would end up as:

$Varible = "123"

Any ideas?

[Melba23]

quinnj09,

 

Any ideas?

Lots - but what have you tried that has not worked? And how do you determine the folder name initially? Selected from a list? Matched in a search?

M23

[TheSaint]

Same here, show us what code you've come up with so far, and we'll help fill in any missing gaps you may have.

[cookiemonster]

Sorry for the slow reply guys, had some progress, im taking the name from an input label, it then removes any letters, so it does what I wanted it to do... well at least it did until I cam across this issue:

label might have in it '1234 - dog' which is fine because this then gives be '1234' which then is changed to 'fix1234' however yesterday I had one which was '5678 - 100 monkey' so this should of turned out to be '5678' which is then changed to 'fix5678' however as im sure youve already guess I actually got '5678100' then 'fix5678100'

Now I cant split the string and say take the first four numbers, because its not always four, sometimes its only three, sometimes its as many as nine, I basically need it to chuck away everything after the first space, this would then leave me with just '5678' in the last example.

$projectnumber = GUICtrlRead($projectname)
$fix_id_value=StringRegExpReplace($fixnumber,"\D+","")
GUICtrlSetData($fix_id, "fix" & $fix_id_value)

[Melba23]

cookiemonster,

This SRER works for me:

Global $aList[3] = ["1234 - dog", "5678 - 100 monkey", "123456789 - 500 pig"]

For $i = 0 To 2
    $sRet = StringRegExpReplace($aList[$i], "(\d+)\s.*", "fix$1")
    ConsoleWrite($sRet & @CRLF)
Next

Decode:

(\d+)   ; Look for a series of digits and capture it
\s      ; Until we reach a space
.*      ; Followed by the rest of the line

fix$1   ; Return the captured group prefixed with fix

All clear?

 

M23

[LeppyR64]

Would StringSplit($fixstring," ") perform the function you're looking for? The first element in the returned array would be your result.

[cookiemonster]

Melba23 that works great cheers!

LeppyR64, now I feel very stupid! I almost gave myself the answer talking about not being able to use split string, stupid me didnt think of getting it to split it at the first space.

Either way cheers to both of ya!!

[TheSaint]

Either split it at the first space ..... or the dash and then remove all spaces from the end result using StringStripWS.

The beauty with the second method, is that it accounts for a circumstance where the space may be missing ... though I'm not sure whether that is at all possible, so may be entirely unnecessary.