Stringregex between pattern´s

[lordsocke]

Hey there,

I´m struggling around for an hour now to figure out, how to cut a simple string between 2 words in a google response. 

It looks like this:

"description": "Im a string and I don´t know how long I can be!",
          "boundingPoly": {

I want to use a Stringrex. My bad try looks like this: 

$aResult = StringRegExp ($sOutput,"(?i)(?s)(\Q) description(.*?) boundingPoly(\E)",3)

But this seems to be on a totaly wrong way. Thanks for everybody!

Edited March 22, 2018 by lordsocke

[iamtheky]

#include<string.au3>

$str = '"description": "Im a string and I don´t know how long I can be!",' & _
          '"boundingPoly": {'

$s1 = '"description":'
$s2 = ',"boundingPoly"'

msgbox(0 , '' , _StringBetween($str , $s1 , $s2)[0])

also, probably just this for the regex, but you need to clarify whether the quotes appear as they do in the question, or if they appear like the one in your regex wrapping description and boundingpoly (as i assumed in the above answer)

$str = 'description: "Im a string and I don´t know how long I can be!",' & _
          'boundingPoly: {'

msgbox(0, '' , StringRegExp ($str,"description:(.*?),boundingPoly",3)[0])

 

Edited March 22, 2018 by iamtheky

[mikell]

May I add, better like this

$res = StringRegExp ($str,"description:(.*?),boundingPoly",3)
If IsArray($res) Then  msgbox(0, '' , $res[0])

So if for any reason the regex fails it will not cause fatal error, script crash and frustrated user

[lordsocke]

looks pretty, thanks for you both! I´m just to retarded for this

[iamtheky]

7 hours ago, mikell said:

better like this

if better means 'in a fashion that takes a penalty to accommodate unsanitized input....'   

*you really should probably write it that way and not nest things that can explode.