Extracting Numbers From Strings And Then Comparing The Numbers

[seanrintel]

G'day,

Is it possible to extract numbers from two strings (e.g. from window titles) and then compare those two numbers to find which is bigger? Something like this:

$Title1 = $WinList[1][0]
$Title2 = $WinList[2][0]

$Number1 = Some operation to extract the number from $Title1 and make it a usable integer
$Number2 = Some operation to extract the number from $Title2 and make it a usable integer

If $Number1 < $Number2 Then
; Do something
    
ElseIf $Number1 > $Number2 Then
       ; Do something else

EndIf

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Until anon,

Sean

[Don N]

how are these string formatted, if you could paste some sample string here it'd be easier to help find a solution

[seanrintel]

G'day Don,

how are these string formatted, if you could paste some sample string here it'd be easier to help find a solution

There are 24 possible window titles all in this format: "suny1", "suny2", "suny3" ... "suny24".

Until anon,

Sean

[Don N]

$str1 = "suny12"
$str2 = "suny20"

$int1 = StringTrimLeft( $str1, 4 )
$int2 = StringTrimLeft( $str2, 4 )

;compare the ints and do whatever else here

StringTrimLeft(), as i used it here, wioll remove the 4 leftmost characters from the string leaving only the integer part remaingin. Check out the helpfile in StringTrimLeft adn StringTrimRight for more details.

hope this helps

[Rauto]

quick and dirty but it extracts 25 from Un25titled

$Num=""

$winTitle="Un25titled"

For $i = 1 to StringLen($winTitle)

$char=StringMid($winTitle,$i,1)

if ASC($char) < 58 then $Num=$Num & $char

Next

msgbox(0,"",$Num)

Rauto

[seanrintel]

G'day all,

Thanks for the suggestions. Both were helpful, Don's especially.

Thanks,

Sean