String Help

[HockeyFan]

Can anyone provide some assistance with removing alphanumeric characters from within a string?

What I'm attempting to do is remove a string of alphanumeric characters from within a string defined by "{" and "}".

For example, I would like to remove the alphanumeric characters between the { and } in the following string:

msiexec.exe /x /qn {B36EEFBE-8F3E-407A-8BDF-0B7EC3ECF15B}

I thought about removing the first 19 characters (msiexec.exe /x /qn ) using...

StringTrimLeft ( "string", 19 )

...but its not always 19 characters to the first "{".

Is there a way to do a string search setting the beginning character and the ending character and extract whats in between?

[Jos]

something like this?

$test = "msiexec.exe /x /qn {B36EEFBE-8F3E-407A-8BDF-0B7EC3ECF15B}"
$String = StringRegExp($test,"{(.*?)}",1,1)
ConsoleWrite('$String[0] = ' & $String[0] & @crlf)

[HockeyFan]

something like this?

$test = "msiexec.exe /x /qn {B36EEFBE-8F3E-407A-8BDF-0B7EC3ECF15B}"
$String = StringRegExp($test,"{(.*?)}",1,1)
ConsoleWrite('$String[0] = ' & $String[0] & @crlf)

JdeB,

Thanks for the help. I was looking at the SRE expression but I couldn't figure it out. The "pattern" confuses me.

None the less, it works.

Thanks for your help.